Re: [matplotlib-devel] unused variables

[Chris B. <chr...@no...>]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Skip Montanaro <sk...@po...> wrote:

> Despite our wish that it wasn't so, it is likely that there is far
> more undocumented than documented code out in the wild, or behind
> firewalls where we can't see it.


Well, then you're hosed anyway -- relying on the name of an unused variable
using a call for your docs is, shall we say not very robust.

In my experience, there's no
> real need to be intentionally obscure by not giving a variable a
> meaningful, whether or not you intend/expect to use it. Besides, open
> source code can serve as a living example of good coding practices.
> Might as well do our best in that regard.
>

then use "unused_meaningful_name"

it looks like pylint, anyway, will accept that.

Or is the goal here to come to a consensus for MPL style?

If so, I'm +1 on "_", and -0 on unused_meaningful_name

-Chris





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