python - can lambda have more than one return

Question

I know lambda doesn't have a return expression. Normally

def one_return(a):     #logic is here     c = a + 1     return c 

can be written:

lambda a : a + 1 

How about write this one in a lambda function:

def two_returns(a, b):     # logic is here     c = a + 1     d = b * 1     return c, d 

Answer 1

Yes, it's possible. Because an expression such as this at the end of a function:

return a, b 

Is equivalent to this:

return (a, b) 

And there, you're really returning a single value: a tuple which happens to have two elements. So it's ok to have a lambda return a tuple, because it's a single value:

lambda a, b: (a, b) # here the return is implicit 

Answer 2

Sure:

lambda a, b: (a + 1, b * 1)