Question

I have a function where I need to do something to a string. I need the function to return a boolean indicating whether or not the operation succeeded, and I also need to return the modified string.

In C#, I would use an out parameter for the string, but there is no equivalent in Python. I’m still very new to Python and the only thing I can think of is to return a tuple with the boolean and modified string.

Related question: Is it pythonic for a function to return multiple values?

Answer 1

def f(in_str):     out_str = in_str.upper()     return True, out_str # Creates tuple automatically  succeeded, b = f('a') # Automatic tuple unpacking