M.E.Farmer wrote: > (x,y,dotp,sumx,maxv) = abc(x,y,dotp,sumx,maxv) > This will only create a tuple in memory that has no name to reference > it by!
Huh? This binds the names "x", "y", "dotp", "sumx" and "maxv" to the values returned by abc: py> def abc(*args): ... return args ... py> (x,y,dotp,sumx,maxv) = abc(2,3,5,7,11) py> x 2 py> y 3 py> dotp 5 py> sumx 7 py> maxv 11 Of course, the parentheses around x,y,dotp,sumx,maxv are unnecessary. STeVe -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
