unpack the first two elements in list/tuple

Question

Is there a way in python to do like this:

a, b, = 1, 3, 4, 5

And then:

>>> a
1
>>> b
3

Answer 1

There is no way to do it with the literals that you've shown. But you can slice to get the effect you want:

a, b = [1, 3, 4, 5, 6][:2]

To get the first two values of a list:

a, b = my_list[:2]