Re: [matplotlib-devel] unused variables

[Skip M. <sk...@po...>]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Ryan May <rm...@gm...> wrote:
> I don't think a leading _ is the way to go, because that's a common
> convention for internal class variables--property variables that you don't
> intend to be part of any supported API.

But leading underscores like this are only used as attributes of
classes. I believe the OP was asking about unused local variables.
Something more like this:

    mode, _ino, dev, nlink, uid, gid, size, _atime, _mtime, _ctime =
os.stat("/etc/hosts")

(Ignore that os.stat returns a posix.stat_result object on Unix-y systems.)

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