How to return two things inside a python 3 function?

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I'm trying to turn my Caesar Cypher code into an exe file, and I did. But the problem I'm having is that it immediately closes once it finishes, so I can't even see the encrypted text. I've thought of adding an input like "press 1 to repeat" so I'm turning the whole asking for user input thing into its own function that can be looped, but it has to return the encrypted message and its key.

Is there a way of returning one string value and a list, inside one function?

Can you show us your current code? It's much more easy to help you then. — mrCarnivore, Oct 22 '17 at 17:58
Return a tuple containing those things `return (message, key)` — Patrick Haugh, Oct 22 '17 at 17:58

Erick Shepherd · Answer 1 · 2017-10-22T18:13:04.300

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Yes, Python supports multiple return values for functions by separating the return values with commas. e.g.,

def foo():

    return 1, 2, 3

a, b, c = foo()

Where printing a, b, and c respectively gives the following:

>>> print(a)
1
>>> print(b)
2
>>> print(c)
3

edited Oct 22 '17 at 18:13

answered Oct 22 '17 at 18:03

Erick Shepherd

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How to return two things inside a python 3 function?

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