stylistic question -- optional return value

Frank Buss fb at frank-buss.de
Wed Aug 28 14:14:44 EDT 2002


Andrew Koenig <ark at research.att.com> wrote:

> Suppose I have a function that sometimes returns one value and sometimes
> returns two.  What's the cleanest way to define such an interface?

I'm a Python beginner, but such a function would confuse me. Perhaps you 
should write a class, but perhaps it depends on your application. Could you 
wrote more information, for which problem you need such a function?

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Frank Buß, fb at frank-buss.de
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