r0g <aioe....@technicalbloke.com> writes: > Paul Rudin wrote: > > Doesn't python just return a single result? (I know it can be a > > tuple and assignment statements will unpack a tuple for you.) > > Yes, it returns a tuple if you return more than one value, it just has > a lovely syntax for it.
No, there is nothing inherent to the ‘return’ statement for dealing with multiple values. The ‘return’ statement *always* returns a single value: whatever value you specify as the argument to the statement (or the value ‘None’ if no argument is specified. If you specify a tuple — and Python has a nice syntax for creating a literal tuple — that's the single value the statement will use. -- \ “There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. | `\ Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, | _o__) ever.” —Viggo Mortensen | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
