On Jun 13, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Tim Johnson wrote: > NOTE: I see much on google regarding unused local variables, > however, doing a search for 'python _' hasn't proved fruitful.
Yes, Google's not good for searching punctuation. But 'python underscore dummy OR unused' might work better. > On a related note: from the python interpreter if I do >>>> help(_) > I get > Help on bool object: > > class bool(int) > | bool(x) -> bool > ...... > I'd welcome comments on this as well. > In the Python interpreter, _ gives you the results of the last expression. When you first start the interpreter, _ is undefined. $ python >>> help(_) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> NameError: name '_' is not defined >>> True True >>> help(_) Help on bool object: class bool(int) | bool(x) -> bool In your case when you asked for help(_), the last object you used must have been a bool. > > :) I expect to be edified is so many ways, some > of them unexpected. That's the nice thing about this list! Hope this helps Philip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
