Robert, You wrote: > ... but I don't know how > to return two variables from one subroutine fragment in python. > Probably very simply. In case no one has addressed this yet, you are right. (I am just a python newbie, but I know the answer to that one.) In the subroutine, the last line should be like this: return Svar1, Svar2 And the call in the calling routine should be: Cvar1, Cvar2 = subroutine( args ) BTW, the variables can have exactly the same names in the calling routine and subroutine, but this is not a requirement. So this would be OK in the subroutine: return var1, var2 And this would be OK in the calling routine: var1, var2 = subroutine( args ) I do not know the limit to the number of variables you can pass, but it is surely big. The value coming out of the subroutine is really a tuple, which is automatically unpacked in the calling routine. And the values coming out can be of different types. The number of targets and the number coming out must match, however. I do not know how it could be any more simple than that! Rick Graves (python newbie) --- yum-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 12:21:56 -0400 (EDT) > From: "Robert G. Brown" <rgb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: [Yum] distribution variable works... > To: "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" <yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: > <Pine.LNX.4.44.0409281138170.20382-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII > > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Robert G. Brown wrote: > > The following (2.0.7 derived) config.py actually works and does the > substitutions and everything. It isn't efficient - both variables > could > be set with one set of rpm.TransactionSet() calls, but I don't know how > to return two variables from one subroutine fragment in python. > Probably very simply. > >
