Conventions for dummy name

[Torsten Bronger]

Hallöchen!

David.Reksten at sweco.no writes:

> Torsten Bronger wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> Right, that's because I've used "__" where not all returning
>> values are interesing to me such as
>>
>> a, b, __ = function_that_returns_three_values(x, y)
>
> Variable name "dummy" serves the same purpose, such as:
>
>     a, b, dummy = function_that_returns_three_values(x, y)

Granted, but my rationale is that "__" is less visible in the source
code, so there is more emphasis on the actually interesting
variables.

Tschö,
Torsten.

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