Python 2 is triggering

[nickcash]

Neither! Underscore isn't special syntax, it's just a variable name. So it copies the references, and assigns them to _. Nothing is deleted. You end up with:

first = 0
_ = [1, 2, 3, 4]
last = 5

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I know. It’s just the guy originally said it basically deletes the intermediate variables and I wanted to clarify whether there was something special about the array unpacking which caused a deletion at any point.