Can Python function return multiple data?

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On Wednesday, June 3, 2015 at 2:57:00 PM UTC-7, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 03/06/2015 22:35, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Thomas Rachel
> > <nutznetz-0c1b6768-bfa9-48d5-a470-7603bd3aa915 at spamschutz.glglgl.de>
> > wrote:
> >> Am 03.06.2015 um 01:56 schrieb Chris Angelico:
> >>
> >>> and it's pretty convenient. In C, the nearest equivalent is passing a
> >>> number of pointers as parameters, and having the function fill out
> >>> values. Python's model is a lot closer to what you're saying than C's
> >>> model is :)
> >>
> >>
> >> At least, C functions can return structs...
> >
> > Oh, yes, I forgot about that. Thought that was C++ but not C, partly
> > because I never do it in either language. Although in a sense, a
> > struct is still a single "thing".
> >
> > ChrisA
> >
> 
> Don't forget that C functions can accept structs as input.  Possibly not 
> a good idea as I found out many years ago pre ANSIC when I forgot that 
> little old ampersand, so the compiler didn't pick it up, but then with 
> modern computers having so much memory who really cares if you burn a 
> little bit of stack on structures rather than pointers to structures?
> 
> Now does Python pass by value or by reference?  Happily sits back and 
> waits for 10**6 emails to arrive as this is discussed for the 10**6th time.
> 
> -- 
> My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
> what you can do for our language.
> 
> Mark Lawrence

People actually argue that Python passes by value?  This is easily proven wrong by passing a mutable object to a function and changing it within the function.