Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed8.news.xs4all.nl!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.056 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.89; '*S*': 0.00; 'from:addr:yahoo.co.uk': 0.05; 'subject:code': 0.07; 'received:80.91': 0.09; 'received:80.91.229': 0.09; 'received:gmane.org': 0.09; 'received:list': 0.09; 'python': 0.11; 'python.': 0.11; 'thursday,': 0.13; 'received:80.91.229.3': 0.16; 'received:plane.gmane.org': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'language': 0.19; 'thanks,': 0.19; '>>>': 0.20; 'lawrence': 0.22; '2015': 0.23; 'seems': 0.24; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.24; 'example': 0.25; 'header:User-Agent:1': 0.26; 'header:X-Complaints-To:1': 0.26; 'appear': 0.29; 'search.': 0.29; 'tutorial': 0.29; 'language.': 0.32; 'me?': 0.34; 'quickly': 0.34; 'subject:?': 0.34; 'could': 0.35; 'to:addr:python-list': 0.35; 'attempt': 0.35; 'really': 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'thanks': 0.36; 'position.': 0.36; 'hi,': 0.37; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'received:org': 0.38; 'stuff': 0.38; 'someone': 0.38; 'things': 0.39; 'to:addr:python.org': 0.39; 'subject:-': 0.39; 'mark': 0.40; 'subject:the': 0.40; 'some': 0.40; 'your': 0.60; 'research': 0.62; 'needing': 0.63; 'making': 0.64; 'goal': 0.64; 'our': 0.64; 'charset:windows-1252': 0.65; 'response.': 0.67; 'skill': 0.76; 'hope.': 0.84; 'posing': 0.84; 'pythonistas,': 0.84; 'unclear': 0.84; 'utc-7,': 0.84; 'received:2': 0.93; 'hand,': 0.97 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: python-list@python.org From: Mark Lawrence Subject: Re: Can anybody explain the '-' in a 2-D creation code? Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 03:27:45 +0100 References: <88b1f3fe-2a0f-408d-8dd6-283cd26e48f8@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host-2-98-197-151.as13285.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: <88b1f3fe-2a0f-408d-8dd6-283cd26e48f8@googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 45 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1435285805 news.xs4all.nl 2921 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:39460 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:93183 On 26/06/2015 02:40, fl wrote: > On Thursday, June 25, 2015 at 6:24:07 PM UTC-7, Mark Lawrence wrote: >> On 26/06/2015 02:07, 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? >>> >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >> >> Lots of people could carry on explaining things to you, but you don't >> appear to be making any attempt to do some research before posing your >> questions, so how about using a search engine? >> >> -- >> My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask >> what you can do for our language. >> >> Mark Lawrence > > Excuse me. On one hand, I am busying on cram these Python stuff quickly for > a position. On the other hand, the search seems to me needing a little > skill to get the goal I hope. I would really appreciate if someone can give > an example on what phrase to use in the search. I am not a lazy guy. > Thanks to all the response. > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5893163/what-is-the-purpose-of-the-single-underscore-variable-in-python -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence