Having too many return statements in a function increases the function’s essential complexity because the flow of execution is broken each time a
return statement is encountered. This makes it harder to read and understand the logic of the function.
Noncompliant code example
With the default threshold of 3:
def fun(): # Noncompliant as there are 4 return statements
if condition1:
return True
elif condition2:
return False
else:
return True
return False
