Re: [Matplotlib-users] Re: matplotlib.mlab.find() not quite like Matlab"s

[Darren D. <dd...@co...>]

John Hunter wrote:

>>>>>>"Chris" == Chris Barker <Chr...@no...> writes:
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>    Chris> no, I was a bit wrong. Python functions always return one
>    Chris> object, and when it appears that you are returning multiple
>    Chris> objects, you are really returning a single tuple with
>    Chris> multiple objects in it. Have I got it right this time?
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>Sounds right to me.  Your answer does point to the danger of using
>nargout in python
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>  ret = somefunc()
>  i,j = ret  
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>If somefunc is relying on nargout, it will botch it.
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>I think the only sane use for nargout in python is in auto-conversion
>scripts, and then with appropriate warnings. 
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>Thanks said, I would still like to have it, for that reason.
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Matlab also returns one object- the varargout cell array which is 
similar to Python's list or tuple. You write a function, and pack 
varargout with nargout results: [a,b]=matlabfun().