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Provided you don't change the order of the items in the tuple, you can
just use slicing:
a, b = f()[ : 2]
Yes, this is what you would normally do with tuples. But i find this
syntax very implicit and awkward. Also, you cannot skip elements, so
you often end up with things like
a, _, b = f()[:3]
The use case I posted is just the most recent that I stumbled upon.
But often a project function would have saved me a lot of typing.
Consider for example when named tuples are used for rows in an ORM (or
attributes in XML):
for person in people:
name, age, address = person['name age address']
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