Memory leak when spawning

Tim Peters tim_one at email.msn.com
Thu Feb 15 19:06:48 EST 2001


[jurgen.defurne at philips.com]
> I thought that I could use None, like 'undef' in Perl.

You can, but it will rebind the name None.  There is no "don't care"
assignment target in Python.

> Any suggestions on that ?

Use the name undef, if you like:

    undef, middle, undef = range(3)

jurgen also works:

    jurgen, middle, jurgen = range(3)

However, don't even think about using "tim" for this purpose <wink>.





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