In article <mailman.7297.1393204171.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 24/02/2014 00:55, alex23 wrote: > > On 23/02/2014 3:43 PM, Scott W Dunning wrote: > >> I had a question regarding functions. Is there a way to call a > >> function multiple times without recalling it over and over. Meaning > >> is there a way I can call a function and then add *5 or something like > >> that? > > > > The same way you repeat anything in Python: with a loop construct. > > > > for _ in range(5): > > func() > > For the benefit of newbies, besides the obvious indentation error above, > the underscore basically acts as a dummy variable. I'll let the > language lawyers give a very detailed, precise description :) As far as I know, it's purely convention. _ is a legal variable name in Python, and the convention is that unpacking something into _ means, "I don't care about that value". It's also used to ignore several values: _, _, foo, bar, _ = blah unpacks a 5-tuple, of which you only care about the 3rd and 4th values. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
