Extracting the a value from a tuple when the other values are unused

Question

I have a tuple foo which contains something I don\'t care about and something I do.

foo = (something_i_dont_need, something_i_need)

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Answer 1

If this is a return value from a function or method, another alternative is to write a wrapper function (or subclass the class and add a method) that returns just the item you're interested in, and calling that instead.