How to return more than one value from a function in Python? [duplicate]

Question

How to return more than one variable from a function in Python?

Answer 1

You separate the values you want to return by commas:

def get_name():    # you code    return first_name, last_name 

The commas indicate it's a tuple, so you could wrap your values by parentheses:

return (first_name, last_name) 

Then when you call the function you a) save all values to one variable as a tuple, or b) separate your variable names by commas

name = get_name() # this is a tuple first_name, last_name = get_name() (first_name, last_name) = get_name() # You can put parentheses, but I find it ugly 

Answer 2

Here is also the code to handle the result:

def foo (a):     x=a     y=a*2     return (x,y)  (x,y) = foo(50)