[Python-ideas] Treat underscores specially in argument lists (original) (raw)

Ryan Gonzalez rymg19 at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 03:45:44 CET 2015

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?

-- Steve

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