Carl Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > IMHO, whether a varibale is used or not has got to be one of the least > important things of all (in no small part because it's easily > discernable from nearby code).
I couldn't disagree more. If you're binding a name to a value that will never be used, you're doing me (the reader of the code) a great favour if you indicate clearly and concisely that this value is not intended to be referenced anywhere else. Saving time for the reader is a very important job of the writer of code. > Having said that, if you do think it's most important to document > whether something is used, I would suggest not using "_" (because > it's conflicts with gettext conventions) or "dummy" (because it's > misleading) for it. Agreed. Note, too, that the ideal answer to this is "don't bind names at all to values that will never be used". It's only because the specifics of Python's 'for' statement require us to do this that we are discussing the ramifications of what to do when what Python requires of us is actually unnecessary for our purposes. -- \ "Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to | `\ another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one!'" -- | _o__) C.S. Lewis | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
