Re: ignoring a part of returned tuples

2007-07-22 Thread noamtm
> Pylint also "allows" the name `dummy` without complaining. That makes it > even clearer and doesn't clash with the meaning of `_` when `gettext` is > used. Thanks, that's even better! Noam. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: ignoring a part of returned tuples

2007-07-04 Thread noamtm
On Jul 4, 11:29 am, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > A common idiom is to use '_' for unused values, ie: > > for (dirpath, _, filenames) in os.walk(...): That's what I need - this avoids PyLint telling me that I have an unused variable, and also makes it clear that this value is not used. Thanks!

ignoring a part of returned tuples

2007-07-04 Thread noamtm
Hi, Some functions, like os.walk(), return multiple items packed as a tuple: for (dirpath, dirnames, filenames) in os.walk(...): Now, if you don't care about one of the tuple members, is there a clean way to ignore it, in a way that no unused variable is being created? What I wanted is: for (di