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Re: How can i return more than one value from a function to more than one variable

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return a tuple:

return a, b, c

or whatever


On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Bob Rashkin <rrashkin@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sunday, December 22, 2013 4:54:46 PM UTC-6, dec...@msn.com wrote:
> > basically what I wanna do is this :
> >
> >
> >
> > x = 4
> >
> > y = 7
> >
> > def switch (z,w):
> >
> > ***this will switch z to w and vice verca***
> >
> >      c= z
> >
> >      z=w
> >
> >      w=c
> >
> >      print 'Now x =', w, 'and y = ' , z
> >
> >      return w
> >
> > x = switch(x,y)
> >
> >
> >
> >  How am I supposed to do so I can  return also a value to the variable y
> WITHOUT printing 'Now x =', w, 'and y = ' , z   a second time ?
> >
> >
> >
> > thanks in advance
>
> Not sure I understand the problem but I think the answer is to put
> multiple values in a list and return the list.
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Re: How can i return more than one value from a function to more than one variable Bob Rashkin <rrashkin@gmail.com> - 2013-12-22 15:41 -0800
  Re: How can i return more than one value from a function to more than one variable Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-12-22 19:05 -0500
  Re: How can i return more than one value from a function to more than one variable Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-23 00:37 +0000
    Re: How can i return more than one value from a function to more than one variable Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-12-22 22:17 -0500
  Re: How can i return more than one value from a function to more than
 one variable Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-12-22 19:57 -0500
  Re: How can i return more than one value from a function to more than one variable Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-23 11:45 +1100

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