Is there a better way to code variable number of return arguments?

[Alan G Isaac]

Dr. Phillip M. Feldman writes:
> I currently have a function that uses a list internally but then returns the
> list items as separate return
> values as follows:
>
> if len(result)==1: return result[0]
> if len(result)==2: return result[0], result[1]
>
> (and so on).  Is there a cleaner way to accomplish the same thing?


The suggestions to return result
or if needed tuple(result) are good,
if a sequence is expected.

But perhaps better if each element has separate meaning:
return a defaultdict;
document the keys.
http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#collections.defaultdict

Cheers,
Alan Isaac