[Visualpython-users] Re: Python/C++

[John B. <jb...@te...>]

I realize this is not the list for this question, but some of you might
know, and I'm not currently on the Python list....

Can anyone tell me how Python implements C++ in the case of _tuples_?

I'm assuming Python is built somewhat on C (or C++), and in C++ you can't
return more than one item from a function, but Python allows one to return
as many (up to 10?) variables as one wants (this is one reason Python is so
"powerful"; returning three variables at once makes it a 'natural' for 3D
space work with lots and lots of x,y,z dealings).

I'm primarily curious (I don't have a problem in C++ other than lots more
code to do the same things as I did in Python).  I just would like to know
if Python is 'behind the scenes' implementing something like a struct or a
class and/or using ' return *this ' -type C++ things, in order to allow
multiple outputs from functions.

(Thanks, if anyone knows, and thanks, if I'm just stupid and Python isn't
based on C anyway.)

Peace
JB
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