How to use a returned value?

[t4keheart]

thank you everybody for your input and thoughts.

Would somebody be kind enough to explain why this works?

msg, destPhone, caseNum, timeStamp, sender = pullData()
print(msg)
print(destPhone)
print(caseNum)
print(timeStamp)
print(sender)

I don't understand what's going on here... what's happening when declaring the returned values back to the funtion itself?

I'm a sys admin rather than a software guy by trade, I've mostly just fallen into a programming role to meet the needs that my employer decides they want... so a lot of these things don't inherently make sense to me... still learning.
Thanks again!