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

On Python 3 you can do the following:

>>> a, b, *_ = 1, 3, 4, 5
>>> a
1
>>> b
3

_ is just a place holder for values you don't need