Looking for the best way to translate an idiom

[James Stroud]

Paul Moore wrote:
> I'm translating some code from another language (Lua) which has
> multiple function return values. So, In Lua, it's possible to define a
> function
> 
>     function f()
>         return 1,2,3
>     end
> 
> which returns 3 values. These can then be used/assigned by the caller:
> 
>     a,b,c = f()
> 
> So far, much like Python, but the key difference is that in Lua,
> excess arguments are ignored - so you can do

py> class mytuple(tuple):
   def magic(self, astr):
     names = astr.split()
     for name, val in zip(names, self):
       globals()[name] = val
...
py> t = mytuple((1,2,3))
py> t.magic('a b')
py> a
1
py> b
2

James