In article <54c8339f$0$13008$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info says... > (3) _ is also commonly used as a "don't care" variable name: > > a, _, b, _ = get_four_items() # but I only care about two of them >
According to the following link, it is actually a double underscore: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/writing/style/#idioms -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list