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returning different datatypes from a function in python

How do we return a sparse matrix and an array data from a function. My sparse matrix is

sparse_mat

<540x5550 sparse matrix of type '' with 9068 stored elements in COOrdinate format>

and the other data is session_id:

array([['192.168.113.111_timesofindia.indiatimes.com_1', 'User'],
     ['192.168.113.111_timesofindia.indiatimes.com_2', 'User'],
      dtype='|S46')

I want to return both these data from a function.Thanks

Solution

  • You can return more than one value from a Python function by returning a tuple:

    return sparse_mat, session_id

    The caller can get the returned value by something like:

    m, id = your_function()

    Oh, and it doesn't make any difference if there are two different data types. You can return two values of the same type too of course.