Is there a better way to code variable number of return arguments?

[Dr. Phillip M. Feldman]

I currently have a function that uses a list internally but then returns the
list items as separate return
values as follows:

if len(result)==1: return result[0]
if len(result)==2: return result[0], result[1]

(and so on). Is there a cleaner way to accomplish the same thing?

 

[Paul Rubin]

if len(result)==1: return result[0]
if len(result)==2: return result[0], result[1]

(and so on). Is there a cleaner way to accomplish the same thing?

That is poor style. Just return the result as a list.