Why does the for loop return None?

Question

I'm working an exercise from Code Academy to iterate through the shopping_list . Why does the following code result return an extra None in the result?

shopping_list = ["banana","apple"]

stock = { "banana": 6,
    "apple": 0,
    "orange": 32,
    "pear": 15
}

prices = { "banana": 4,
    "apple": 2,
    "orange": 1.5,
    "pear": 3
}

# Write your code below!
def compute_bill(food):
    total = 0
    for x in food:
        print x
        total += prices[x]
compute_bill(shopping_list)

Answer 1

shopping_list = ["banana","apple"]

stock = { "banana": 6,
    "apple": 0,
    "orange": 32,
    "pear": 15
}

prices = { "banana": 4,
    "apple": 2,
    "orange": 1.5,
    "pear": 3
}

# Write your code below!
def compute_bill(food):
    total = 0
    for x in food:
        print x
        total += prices[x]
    return total
print(compute_bill(shopping_list))

You need use return statement to get the result of the function compute_bill .