On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 6:18 AM DL Neil <pythonl...@danceswithmice.info> wrote: > Yet, because "i" (or "n", "a", or "x"...) does not convey usage-meaning > - other than, "I am a place-holder"! So, aren't we back to "_"?
Not quite. The single-letter names mean "I am an iterator/index/etc", but "_" means "I am not used anywhere". So if you're iterating over a range of integers and doing something with them, "i" is fine, "n" is fine, but "_" isn't. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
