[Python-ideas] Treat underscores specially in argument lists

[Ryan Gonzalez]

It's usually in callbacks where you only care about a few arguments.

On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info>
wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 07:23:30PM -0600, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
> > Often, underscores are used in function argument lists:
> >
> > def f(_): pass
> >
> > However, sometimes you want to ignore more than one argument, in which
> case
> > this doesn't work:
>
> Why are you ignoring *any* arguments?
>
>
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