Is it possible to unpack a tuple in Python without creating unwanted variables?

Question

Is there a way to write the following function so that my IDE doesn\'t complain that column is an unused variable?

def get_selected_index(self):
           


        

Answer 1

In Python the _ is often used as an ignored placeholder.

(path, _) = self._treeView.get_cursor()

You could also avoid unpacking as a tuple is indexable.

def get_selected_index(self):
    return self._treeView.get_cursor()[0][0]