[Tutor] returning two values continued

[Marc Tompkins]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 4:41 PM, elis aeris <hunter92383 at gmail.com> wrote:

> def returning ():
>     a = 1
>     b = 2
>     return a, b
>
>
> ab = returning()
>
>
> does this work?
>

I cut and pasted into an interactive Python session:

>>> def returning ():
...     a = 1
...     b = 2
...     return a, b
...
>>>
>>> ab = returning()
>>> print ab
(1, 2)

if it does, is ab a tuple of 2 and [0] being a and [1] being b?
>

>>> print type(ab)
<type 'tuple'>
>>> print ab[0]
1
>>> print ab[1]
2

I don't know what environment you're using - I use Windows XP.
1 - Start/Run, 'cmd', OK gets me a command prompt.
2 - I type "python" and hit Enter - I have a Python interactive session.
3 - I highlight your code snippet, hit Ctrl-Ins to copy it, then right-click
in the Python session and select Paste.
Ten seconds down, and there's your answer.

Your question was reasonably well thought-out and phrased - you're halfway
there.  Go the other half - try it yourself as I did, and if there's still
something (like an error message) you don't understand, post the code AND
the result when you tried it.  It only takes an extra minute, and it gets
you a LOT more credit here.  Cut, Copy, and Paste are your friends.

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