I’m trying to make something a little bit lighter. There’s this Python function I use for calculations, and it returns me an object like this :

result = {
    'density': data.density,
    'specific_heat': data.specific_heat,
    'dynamic_viscosity': data.dynamic_viscosity,
    'conductivity': data.conductivity,
    'prandtl': data.prandtl
}

What I want to do is to create different variables in my PHP containing the different attributes. This is how I do it for now :

result = myPythonFunction();

$rho_prim = result['density'];
$cp_prim = result['specific_heat'];
$mu_prim = result['dynamic_viscosity'];
$lambda_prim = result['conductivity'];
$pr_prim = result['prandtl'];

And it works, but I wonder if there’s a shorter way. Plus, sometimes I won’t need all of the data, but just (for example) the density and the conductivity.

Maybe it is a pretty easy problem, but honestly I don’t know what to look for on the documentation. In Javascript I remember that ...Object was doing almost what I want.

I tried to use arrays, but it doesn’t look that good.