Eric V. Smith added the comment:
Thanks for the suggestion. However, I don't think it's possible or desirable
for python to implement this.
There are two problems: 1) the internals of python would have to be drastically
changed to support this, and 2) you'd need different syntax to support
New submission from Ted Shaneyfelt:
def f():
try: return 0
except: return 1,2
x = f() # x is 0
x,y = f() # proposal: x,y should be 1,2 instead of uncaught TypeError
It would make sense to be able to catch [TypeError: 'int' object is not
iterable] and return the correct number of
