<@ULVA73B9P> Is it possible to pass a flow's retur...
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@Marvin Is it possible to pass a flow's return variable as emit_event's payload?
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The first excerpt from Prefect's Release Notes suggests that you can access variables during flow runtime using the Prefect Python SDK via the
.get()
method from the
prefect.variables
module. However, this excerpt does not directly address using a flow's return variable in the
emit_event
payload. The second excerpt is truncated and seems to be a duplicate of the first. It doesn't provide the necessary information regarding passing a flow's return variable to
emit_event
. Unfortunately, the provided excerpts do not answer your question about whether you can pass a flow's return variable as an
emit_event
payload. Generally speaking, though, in most programming contexts, you can pass the return value of a function (in this case, a flow) to other parts of your code as long as the scope and timing are appropriate. If you want to emit an event with the result of a flow, you would typically capture the return value and then pass it to the
emit_event
function. Since the provided excerpts are inconclusive, I would suggest looking at the Prefect documentation or code examples to see how to use the return variable of a flow with
emit_event
. If you have a specific code example or further questions, please provide more context so that we could explore a more precise solution.