Re: [Matplotlib-users] Re: matplotlib.mlab.find() not quite like Matlab"s

Darren Dale wrote:

> Matlab also returns one object- the varargout cell array which is 
> similar to Python's list or tuple. You write a function, and pack 
> varargout with nargout results: [a,b]=matlabfun().

I haven't used Matlab for a while, and not a newer version than 5.*, but 
  IIRC, while the above notation looks, like you are returning a cell 
array, you could not call that fun with a single return argument. 
Perhaps that's changed, in which case you shouldn't use nargout in 
Matlab either!

Anyway, my main point was that kludging a nargout implementation in 
python was not a good idea. I'd much rather see matplotlib be 
pythonesque than matlabesque. Perhaps my goals are different than 
others, but I use Python, rather than Matlab, largely because I like the 
language better.

-Chris





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