title: In python, is there a "pass" equivalent for a variable assignment
body: <p>I am using a library function called get_count_and_price which returns a 2-tuple (count,price). In many places I use both time and price. However, in some I only need time or price. So right now, if I only need count, I assign to (count,price) and leave the price unused.</p>
  
  <p>This works great and causes no trouble in and of itself.</p>
  
  <p>However...</p>
  
  <p>I use Eclipse with PyDev, and the new version 1.5 automatically shows errors and warnings. One of the warnings it shows is unused variables. In the above example, it flags price as unused. This is the sort of behavior which is great and I really appreciate PyDev doing this for me. However, I would like to skip the assignment to price altogether. Ideally, I would like something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>(count,None) = get_count_and_price()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now as we all know, None cannot be assigned to. Is there something else I could do in this case? </p>
  
  <p>I know I could do something like </p>
  
  <pre><code>count = get_count_and_price()[0]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I am asking just to see if anyone has any better suggestions.</p>