is there is a (void)x; equivalent in python?

Question

I have a simple python code that does some thing like this

for root, dirs, files in os.walk("/var/log"):
  #Some thing with root
  #Uses files
  #Doesn't use dirs

the variable dir is not used in this code section, however pylint is not exactly happy about it and complaining about unused variable

is there an C equivalent way ( (void) dir ; ) I can use to suppress this

Answer 1

In python, you can use an underscore _ to represent a "throwaway" variable you arent going to use.

Example:

>>> _, b = (1, 2)
>>> b
2

So in your case:

for root, _, files in os.walk("/var/log"):

Should do the trick.