Is there a better way to code variable number of return arguments?
Christian Heimes
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Thu Oct 8 12:52:37 EDT 2009
Dr. Phillip M. Feldman schrieb:
> I currently have a function that uses a list internally but then returns the
> list items as separate return
> values as follows:
>
> if len(result)==1: return result[0]
> if len(result)==2: return result[0], result[1]
>
> (and so on). Is there a cleaner way to accomplish the same thing?
You can simply "return result". If you want to make sure that you return
a copy of the internal list, do "return list(result)" or "return
tuple(result)".
Christian
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