Python code error in VS Code

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number = 5

if number > 0:
    print("positive")
elif number < 0:
    print("negative")
else:
    print("zero")

Share the output returned by the last node

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If you’re executing this code in a python code node within n8n, you need to make sure that your code does return one or multiple item/s.

# Add a new field called 'my_new_field' to the JSON of the item
_item["json"]["my_new_field"] = 1
return _item