Returning multiple values

Unlike in most other languages, in Python it's very easy to return multiple objects from a function. This feature opens up a whole world of possibilities and allows you to code in a style that is hard to reproduce with other languages. Our thinking is limited by the tools we use, therefore when Python gives you more freedom than other languages, it is actually boosting your own creativity as well. To return multiple values is very easy, you just use tuples (either explicitly or implicitly). Let's look at a simple example that mimics the divmod built-in function:

# return.multiple.py
def moddiv(a, b):
    return a // b, a % b

print(moddiv(20, 7))  # prints (2, 6)

I could have wrapped the highlighted part in the preceding code in brackets, making it an explicit tuple, but there's no need for that. The preceding function returns both the result and the remainder of the division, at the same time.