Exception as the primary error handling mechanism?

[Paul Rudin]

r0g <aioe.org at technicalbloke.com> writes:

> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:31:34 +0000, r0g wrote:
>> 
>>> A pattern I have used a few times is that of returning an explicit
>>> success/failure code alongside whatever the function normally returns.
>> 
>> That doesn't work for languages that can only return a single result, 
>> e.g. C or Pascal. You can fake it by creating a struct that contains a 
>> flag and the result you want, but that means doubling the number of data 
>> types you deal with.
>
>
> No, but that's why I try not to use languages where you can only return
> a single result, I always found that an arbitrary and annoying
> constraint to have. I leads to ugly practices like "magic" return values
>  in C or explicitly packing things into hashtables like PHP, yuk!

Doesn't python just return a single result? (I know it can be a tuple and
assignment statements will unpack a tuple for you.)