python gripes survey

[Jordan Krushen]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 18:14:30 GMT, Afanasiy <abelikov72 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Sure you can return an associative array, but in my experience the
> preference is to return a tuple. I'll probably get flamed for saying so,
> but this is how I feel and it is unavoidable. Returning a struct in C is
> easier to deal with than returning a near-mystery tuple in Python.

On one hand, you could always return a dict in your own code.  On the 
other, I find dealing with returned tuples to be as easy as it gets:

def f(x, y, z):
    return(z, y, x)

a, b, c = f()
print a, b, c        # 3 2 1

J.