Unfortunately, the original post seems to have gone missing here, so
please excuse me for breaking threading.
On Sunday, December 22, 2013 4:54:46 PM UTC-6, dec...@msn.com wrote:
> basically what I wanna do is this :
>
> x = 4
> y = 7
>
> def switch (z,w):
> ***this will switch z to w and vice verca***
> c= z
> z=w
> w=c
> print 'Now x =', w, 'and y = ' , z
> return w
>
> x = switch(x,y)
>
>
> How am I supposed to do so I can return also a value to the variable
> y WITHOUT printing 'Now x =', w, 'and y = ' , z a second time ?
To swap two values in Python (or for that matter, three or thirty-three
values!) just re-assign the values. Python guarantees that this will work:
x = 23
y = 42
x, y = y, x
x now has the value that y had, and y has the value that x had. There is
no need for a temporary value, and no need for a "switch" function.
To return more than one value from a function, return a list or a tuple.
Normally we use a tuple:
def sum_and_product(x, y):
sum = x + y
product = x*y
return (sum, product)
a = 100
b = 2
s, p = sum_and_product(a, b)
Now s will have the value 102 and p will have the value 200.
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