Call a function from within another function in Python

I'm starting to learn Python, but I'm having an issue with my code and was hoping someone could help. I have two functions, and I would like to call one function from the other. When I simply tried calling the function, it seemed to be ignored so I'm guessing it's an issue with how I have called it. Below is the snippet of my code in question.

# Define the raw message function
def raw(msg):
    s.send(msg+'\r\n')

    # This is the part where I try to call the output function, but it
    # does not seem to work.
    output('msg', '[==>] '+msg)

    return

# Define the output and error function
def output(type, msg):
    if ((type == 'msg') & (debug == 1)) | (type != msg):
        print('['+strftime("%H:%M:%S", gmtime())+'] ['+type.upper()+'] '+msg)
    if type.lower() == 'fatal':
        sys.exit()
    return

# I will still need to call the output() function from outside a
# function as well. When I specified a static method for output(),
# calling output() outside a function (like below) didn't seem to work.
output('notice', 'Script started')

raw("NICK :PythonBot")

Edited. I am actually calling the raw() function, it was just below the snippet. :)