Ignore part of a python tuple
I personally would write:
a, _, b = myTupleThis is a pretty common idiom, so it's widely understood. I find the syntax crystal clear.
Your solution is fine in my opinion. If you really have a problem with assigning _ then you could define a list of indexes and do:
a = (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)idxs = [0, 3, 4]a1, b1, c1 = (a[i] for i in idxs)
Note that you can slice the source tuple, like this instead:
a,b = some_tuple[0:2]