Is there a better way to code variable number of return arguments?

Paul Rubin http
Thu Oct 8 13:48:07 EDT 2009


Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> writes:
> some_list = [1, 2]
> this, that = func(alist)
> 
> At least, in 2.5.4 this works.  :-)

But that fails if there are fewer than two elements in the list.  It's
better to just make the logic either expect a list, or if it's
implementing something like an optional value, code it up explicitly.
You may even want to return two lists, the second one possibly empty.



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