Underscore alone is a special variable name and I’m pretty sure anything assigned to it goes straight to garbage collection. Whereas _myvariable is typically used to indicate a “private” class variable or method (Python doesn’t have private so it’s just a convention).
_ (sic) as a variable name is often used when a function returns multiple outputs but you only want one
Underscore alone is a special variable name and I’m pretty sure anything assigned to it goes straight to garbage collection. Whereas
_myvariable
is typically used to indicate a “private” class variable or method (Python doesn’t have private so it’s just a convention).