Re: [matplotlib-devel] unused variables

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

On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Chris Barker <chr...@no...> wrote:
> it looks like pylint, anyway, will accept that.

Yes, pylint used to only accept a leading underscore by default as a
flag that a variable was unused. When I switched from pychecker to
pylint a few years ago, all my carefully crafted "unused_" variables
got flagged by pylint. I suggested adding that as another default
prefix, and they agreed.

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