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Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this?

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Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> writes:

> In article <54c8339f$0$13008$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>, 
> steve+comp.lang.python@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

More accurately (and as acknowledged in that guide), a single underscore
*is* a common name for a “don't care” name, but is better avoided for
that purpose because it's also commonly used for other purposes.

In other words: That guide is correct in its admonition, but that
doesn't challenge what Steven said about common usage.

-- 
 \       “My business is to teach my aspirations to conform themselves |
  `\              to fact, not to try and make facts harmonise with my |
_o__)                   aspirations.“ —Thomas Henry Huxley, 1860-09-23 |
Ben Finney

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Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> - 2015-01-27 08:15 -0500
  Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-01-27 06:08 -0800
  Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-01-27 16:25 +0200
    Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> - 2015-01-27 09:37 -0500
      Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Jussi Piitulainen <jpiitula@ling.helsinki.fi> - 2015-01-27 16:47 +0200
    Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-01-27 19:05 +0100
      Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? random832@fastmail.us - 2015-01-27 13:13 -0500
    Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Neal Becker <ndbecker2@gmail.com> - 2015-01-27 13:25 -0500
  Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-28 11:55 +1100
    Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-01-28 02:19 +0100
      Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-01-28 12:29 +1100
        Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Mario Figueiredo <marfig@gmail.com> - 2015-01-28 09:32 +0100
      Re: Is there a more elegant way to spell this? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-01-28 13:16 +1100

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