I am with Eric, I find the bare `_` to be jarring and in some
fonts/color schemes can blend in too much.  I advocate for `_name`.

Just because the variable isn't used now, does not mean it won't be
used later and having sensible variable names on them can't hurt.

Tom

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Federico Ariza <ariza.feder...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nelle
>
> Is that written somewhere?
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Nelle Varoquaux
> <nelle.varoqu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6 March 2014 21:47, Skip Montanaro <s...@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Ryan May <rma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I don't think a leading _ is the way to go, because that's a common
>>>> convention for internal class variables--property variables that you don't
>>>> intend to be part of any supported API.
>>>
>>> But leading underscores like this are only used as attributes of
>>> classes. I believe the OP was asking about unused local variables.
>>> Something more like this:
>>>
>>>     mode, _ino, dev, nlink, uid, gid, size, _atime, _mtime, _ctime =
>>> os.stat("/etc/hosts")
>>
>> The convention is to use a simple _.
>>
>>  mode, _, dev, nlink, uid, gid, size, _, _, _ = os.stat("/etc/hosts")
>>
>>>
>>> (Ignore that os.stat returns a posix.stat_result object on Unix-y systems.)
>>>
>>> Skip
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