Yves Dorfsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul Rubin wrote: > > Yves Dorfsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> import time > >> y, None, d, None, None, None, None = time.localtime() > >> > >> 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. > > > > 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() > > But you still have have a variable that's using memory for nothing.
No, you have one extra unused name binding. The values that you don't want to use have *already* been allocated by the time the above statement is executed. Name binding doesn't copy the values, it merely binds a name to them. There's no "variable" in the above statement. -- \ “Holy human pressure cookers, Batman!” —Robin | `\ | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
