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[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week 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 use to indicate a "private" class variable or method (Python doesn't have private so it's just a convention).

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