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

You could use _ to represent variables you wanted to "throw away"

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