Returning variable results from a function

[Matthew]

EXCELLENT! Thank-you. matthew.

"Delaney, Timothy" wrote:

> > From: Matthew [mailto:matthewm at zebrasoft.co.nz]
> >
> > Given something like:-
> >
> > def fred(size):
> >     return size, 1,2,3
> >
> > size,a,b,c=fred(3)
> >
> > how does one create a tuple to hold the results like:-
> >
> > size, (<a tuple holding the number of results?>) = fred(<no of
> > results?>)
>
> What you want to do is return the 1, 2, 3 as a tuple ...
>
> def spam (size):
>     return size, (1, 2, 3,)
>
> size, eggs = spam(3)
>
> Here you are returning a tuple, which has size and another tuple as its
> elements.
>
> However, if you mean "how do I take 'size' and produce a tuple of that
> length, already populated, and return it"
>
> def spam (size):
>     return size, tuple(range(1, size + 1))
>
> size, eggs = spam(3)
>
> Tim Delaney