Unpack less values from function's return values

[Chris Rebert]

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 3:19 AM,  <dudeja.rajat at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using Python 2.5.2. I'm getting this error whenever I try to unpack less
> values from a function.
>
> ValueError: too many values to unpack
>
>
> I want to know if there is a way I can unpack less values returning from a
> function?

Unpack them into throwaway variables:

def foo(): return 1,2,3,4

a, b, _, _ = foo()

In very new Python, you can also do:

a, b, *_ = foo()

Cheers,
Chris
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