Suggestions for good programming practices?

[David LeBlanc]

Somebody seems to be working overtime to miss the point here...

BTW, struct is a module name :->

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-list-admin at python.org
> [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Peter Hansen
> Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 18:51
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: Suggestions for good programming practices?
> 
> 
> Brian Quinlan wrote:
> > 
> > Peter Hansen wrote:
> > > You _are_ returning them "in a struct".  It's spelled "tuple"
> > > but other than that what's the difference?
> > 
> > struct members are access by name while tuple elements are accessed
> > positionally.
> 
> Okay.  So why is that a problem?
> 
> Or to ask it from the other side, what's stopping you from 
> returning items in an object?
> 
> class Struct:
>     pass
> 
> def returnStruct():
>     result = Struct()
> 
>     result.anInt = 5
>     result.aString = 'foo bar baz'
>     result.spam = ('eggs', 'brian')
>  
>     return result
> 
> -Peter
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