havent programmed in years - confused by why RETURN is not returning

[stmoose]

thanks for the reply
and i understand what you are showing

you are sending 10 to the function and printing

my question is - arnt i sending the heads_count, tails_count, x to count function and returning those variables, just not the value that I am expecting - at the very least I would think that the count variable should be 10, but it's not when printed in the main function

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ok so before posting i did some more script manipulations and searching to find that python runs top to bottom (which I didnt realize)

i thought the

count(heads_count, tails_count, x)

was calling (old school programming GOTO) the count function and then returning to the main function with those variables and continuing

guess I have been out of programming far longer then I thought and need to do some more reading
thanks for the help