Question

Say I have a Python function that returns multiple values in a tuple:

def func():     return 1, 2 

Is there a nice way to ignore one of the results rather than just assigning to a temporary variable? Say if I was only interested in the first value, is there a better way than this:

x, temp = func() 

Answer 1

One common convention is to use a ‘_’ as a variable name for the elements of the tuple you wish to ignore. For instance:

def f():     return 1, 2, 3  _, _, x = f()