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).
In Python you can use this as a variable name
In Python you can use 🍆 as a variable name.
Edit: oops, guess I was mistaken, you can use most Unicode but emojis are not valid.
That actually seems even more arbitrary. Like, do they just hate fun?
you might be thinking of Rust.
Just going by the reputation, you probably can do this in JavaScript
~ $ python Python 3.12.10 (main, Apr 9 2025, 18:13:11) [Clang 18.0.3 (https://android.googlesource.com/toolchain/llvm-project d8003a456 on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> ❗ = 'nah' File "<stdin>", line 1 ❗ = 'nah' ^ SyntaxError: invalid character '❗' (U+2757) >>> ~ $ node Welcome to Node.js v23.11.1. Type ".help" for more information. > const 👍 = 'test' const 👍 = 'test' ^ Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token >C supremacy
The source character set is implementation defined.
You can use anything that doesn’t start with a digit or punctuation as a variable name (underscore beginning also allowed) unless it’s a keyword.
_ (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
_myvariableis typically use to indicate a “private” class variable or method (Python doesn’t have private so it’s just a convention).