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Remove need for "nargout=0" in function calls

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
matlab, python

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Start by locating where the Python MATLAB engine handles nargout=0 and determine whether omitted outputs can return None without breaking script or function calls. Done means automatic handling, or a more helpful error message if that is not possible.

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Description

A big quality-of-life improvement in the matlab engine would be to automatically handle, somehow, the need to add "nargout=0" for every script command or function without a return value. The engine should be able to detect no outputs and simply return a None to Python, which will be ignored if the user doesn't set the output to a variable.

If somehow, this is not possible, at least please update the error message that is generated, it is not helpful at all. This is a major problem for new users just trying to get the basics working. Now that I'm past it, at least I usually know what the problem is, but it is still annoying to have to type in the argument every time, and to find and fix the ones where it was forgotten, since you normally don't need that argument.

This would be a huge streamlining of working with the matlab.engine. Thanks!

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