anonymous assignment

[Yves Dorfsman]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> Yves Dorfsman <yves at zioup.com> writes:
>> import time
>> y, None, d, None, None, None, None = time.localtime()
>>
>> I know you can't assign anything to None, but I'm sure you get what I
>> mean, a special keyword that means I don't care about this value.
> 
> You can just use a variable name than you ignore.  It's traditional to
> use _ but it's not a special keyword, it's just a another variable name:
> 
>    y, _, d, _, _, _, _, _, _ = time.localtime()

But you still have have a variable that's using memory for nothing. I find 
this unsatisfactory... I don't want to compare languages, but I find the 
perl "undef" elegant.


Yves.
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