Re: [matplotlib-devel] unused variables

[Nelle V. <nel...@gm...>]

On 6 March 2014 21:47, Skip Montanaro <sk...@po...> wrote:
> 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")

The convention is to use a simple _.

 mode, _, dev, nlink, uid, gid, size, _, _, _ = os.stat("/etc/hosts")

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