Exception as the primary error handling mechanism?

[Ben Finney]

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

> Paul Rudin wrote:
> > Doesn't python just return a single result? (I know it can be a
> > tuple and assignment statements will unpack a tuple for you.)
>
> Yes, it returns a tuple if you return more than one value, it just has
> a lovely syntax for it.

No, there is nothing inherent to the ‘return’ statement for dealing with
multiple values.

The ‘return’ statement *always* returns a single value: whatever value
you specify as the argument to the statement (or the value ‘None’ if no
argument is specified. If you specify a tuple — and Python has a nice
syntax for creating a literal tuple — that's the single value the
statement will use.

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Ben Finney