[Tutor] Python best practices

[Kent Johnson]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Lie Ryan <lie.1296 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/27/2009 7:03 PM, Stefan Lesicnik wrote:

>> - functions should return one value (im not 100% of this one)
>
> I 100% disagree or with this one.

Me too. Actually I think it is meaningless - every Python function
returns one value, an instance of some class. Each of these functions
returns one value - a list, a tuple and a Foo instance:

def make_list():
  return [0, 1]

def make_tuple():
  return 0, 1

class Foo(object):
  def __init__(self, a, b):
    self.a = a
    self.b = b

def make_Foo():
  return Foo(0, 1)


BTW when I first saw this rule I mis-read it as "Functions should have
a single point of return" which is fairly common advice that I also
disagree with.

Kent