Mario Figueiredo wrote: > 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
That's third-party documentation, not official, and I strongly disagree with a couple of those recommendations. But this specific one seems reasonable enough. -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
