Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Yves Dorfsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I know you can't assign anything to None, but I'm sure you get what I > > mean, a special keyword that means I don't care about this value. Snap. This topic was raised today in another thread. > You can just use a variable name than you ignore. It's traditional > to use _ but it's not a special keyword, it's just a another > variable name: > > y, _, d, _, _, _, _, _, _ = time.localtime() It's a terrible name for that purpose, since it doesn't indicate the intention explicitly, and it's already overloaded in meaning by a pre-existing convention (ref. the 'gettext' module in Python and many other languages). Far better to use the name 'unused' as suggested by Carl Banks earlier today. (good sigmonster, have a cookie) -- \ "Choose mnemonic identifiers. If you can't remember what | `\ mnemonic means, you've got a problem." —Larry Wall | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
