On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 4:01 PM Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 10:20:11AM -0800, Christopher Barker wrote:
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but, alas, tuple unpacking is apparently automatically disabled for single
value tuples (how do you distinguish a tuple with a single value and the value itself??)
The time machine strikes again. We have not one but THREE ways of doing so (although two are alternate ways of spelling the same thing):
py> def func():
... return [1]
Sure, but this requires that you actually return something "unpackable" from the function. As David Mertz pointed out, functions always return a single value, but that value may or may not be unpackable. So the OP's desire, that you could extend a function that was originally written returning a single scalar value to instead return multiple values, and have code that expected a single value still work the same simply isn't possible (without other major changes to Python). -CHB -- Christopher Barker, PhD Python Language Consulting - Teaching - Scientific Software Development - Desktop GUI and Web Development - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython