Hallöchen!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Torsten Bronger wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> Right, that's because I've used "__" where not all returning
>> values are interesing to me such as
>>
>> a, b, __ = function_that_returns_three_values(x, y)
>
> Variable name "dummy" serves the same purpose, such as:
Hallöchen!
Ben Finney writes:
> "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> The underscore is used as "discarded" identifier. So maybe
>>
>> for _ in xrange(10):
>> ...
>
> The problem with the '_' name is that it is already well-known and
> long-used existing convention for an entir
-On [20080110 00:21], Ben Finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>The problem with the '_' name is that it is already well-known and
>long-used existing convention for an entirely unrelated purpose: in
>the 'gettext' i18n library, the '_' function to get the
>locally-translated version of a text string.
On Jan 9, 11:17 pm, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The underscore is used as "discarded" identifier. So maybe
>
> > for _ in xrange(10):
> > ...
>
> The problem with the '_' name is that it is already well-known and
> long-used exist
