Post #1350657

Python Tip #104 (of 365): Use an _ to represent a placeholder variable. This can be handy when you need to use range to loop N times but you don't care about the current iteration number in the loop: matrix = [[0] * 3 for _ in range(3)] Or when you're unpacking a tuple and one or more tuple values are unimportant: [(item, _)] = collections.Counter(items).most_common(1) When I see _ I think "I don't need to care about that value". #Python #DailyPythonTip