rh0dium: > This is where $_ in perl is awesome - There must be a default variable > in python right?
A default variable may add bugs to your code, and newbies of the language may see it coming from air, so Python avoids such things. The only Python "default variable" I know of is the _ that when used in the Python shell, it (seem to) stores the last not-None result (inside scripts it is a normal name sometimes used to 'ignore' some values): >>> a = 1 >>> _ Traceback (most recent call last): ... NameError: name '_' is not defined >>> print 2 2 >>> _ Traceback (most recent call last): ... NameError: name '_' is not defined >>> 5 / 3 1 >>> _ 1 >>> None >>> _ 1 >>> 2 2 >>> _ 2 Bye, bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
