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

If you don't care about the second item, why not just extract the first one:

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