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On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 06:07:30PM -0700, fl wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I read Ned's tutorial on Python. It is very interesting. On its last
>example, I cannot understand the '_' in:
>
>
>
>board=[[0]*8 for _ in range(8)]
>
>
>I know  '_' is the precious answer, but it is still unclear what it is
>in the above line. Can you explain it to me?

Its just a variable whose value isn't used in this specific expression, you could use 'x', 'y', or any other valid variable
name there and it should work.


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