anonymous assignment

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Yves Dorfsman a écrit :
> Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
>>>>    y, _, d, _, _, _, _, _, _ = time.localtime()
>>> But you still have have a variable that's using memory for nothing.

I'm afraid you just don't understand what Python's "variable" are. 
You're really worrying about a non-issue here. Seriously.

>>> I
>>> find this unsatisfactory...
>>
>> Get over it…
> 
> Than what's the point of wanting a better language if every time we run 
> in something that looks wrong, or something that could be done better we 
> should  just "get over it" ?
> 

No language can be everything to everyone and still retain any kind of 
consistency. And the Python's team really try to keep a good balance 
between features and consistency (and so far mostly succeed IHMO).

Now, of course, suggesting features or potential improvements *is* a 
good idea (and FWIW there's an official way to do so : PEPs). But this 
doesn't mean that each an any such proposition is a good idea by itself, 
nor that it makes any sense wrt/ Python's design, nor that it's worth 
implementing it.