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):
(path, column) = self._tree_view.get_cursor()
return path[0]
In this case I don't care about the second item in the tuple and just want to discard the reference to it when it is unpacked.
Yes, it is possible. The accepted answer with _ convention still unpacks, just to a placeholder variable.
You can avoid this via itertools.islice:
from itertools import islice
values = (i for i in range(2))
res = next(islice(values, 1, None)) # 1
This will give the same res as below:
_, res = values
The solution, as demonstrated above, works when values is an iterable that is not an indexable collection such as list or tuple.