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Correct me if I am wrong. I wonder why this is not supported and maybe it's in the future development?

Hi <@ULN6LVD3Q> — you’re correct, the multiple assignment you’re attempting is not supported. That’s because when you’re building your flow, Prefect has no way of knowing what’s going to be returned from the task — it’s building the computational graph, but not executing it, so we don’t know (yet) that there are two items to assign.

However, I would suggest a slightly different variant of your solution. As proposed, you are going to run your task *two times* and then grab the first and second result of those two runs, respectively.

Instead, try:
```
task_result = task_function(...)
result1 = task_result[0]
result2 = task_result[1]
```

This represents a single execution of the task, and then two indexes (which are secretly tasks themselves) of that single result

I’m glad you’re having a good experience otherwise and definitely keep asking with any questions you have!

A new question: what if a function returns (let's say) 20 objects and then i need to write 20 line codes to declare them...is there any efficient way to solve? thx

Hi <@ULN6LVD3Q> sorry just seeing this question --&gt; could you explain your use case for this a little more? If you need to process each item individually, maybe take a look at Task Mapping: <https://docs.prefect.io/guide/core_concepts/mapping.html>

Thank you, Chris. I get what you meant:slightly_smiling_face: