On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 7:28 AM Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Not quite. The single-letter names mean "I am an iterator/index/etc", > > but "_" means "I am not used anywhere". > > Small addendum to this. pyflakes (at least in my experience) doesn't > interpret "_" as a variable name or prefix to a local variable as > "unused".
Interesting. So it would flag this code? for _ in range(5): next(f) # skip five lines ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
