Re: Conventions for dummy name
- From: Torsten Bronger <bronger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:39:51 +0100
Hallöchen!
Ben Finney writes:
"Diez B. Roggisch" <deets@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
The underscore is used as "discarded" identifier. So maybe
for _ in xrange(10):
...
The problem with the '_' name is that it is already well-known and
long-used existing convention for an entirely unrelated purpose:
in the 'gettext' i18n library, the '_' function to get the
locally-translated version of a text string.
Right, that's because I've used "__" where not all returning values
are interesing to me such as
a, b, __ = function_that_returns_three_values(x, y)
However, in loops, I prefer real names, even if the loop variable
isn't used outside.
Tschö,
Torsten.
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