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submitted 11 months ago by bestelbus22@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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).