An alternative (if you both want to be right) is to say what it is but use
junk also.

Ex:   junkoldpubkey, junkhash, newpubkey = foobar(...)



On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Trishank Karthik Kuppusamy <
notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In tuf/repo/keystore.py:
>
> > @@ -447,16 +462,19 @@ def change_password(keyid, old_password, new_password):
> >    # stores derived keys instead of user passwords, according to the
> >    # key derivation function used by _generate_derived_key().
> >    salt = _derived_keys[keyid]['salt']
> > -  junk, old_derived_key = _generate_derived_key(old_password, salt)
> > +  iterations = _derived_keys[keyid]['iterations']
> > +  junk, junk, old_derived_key = _generate_derived_key(old_password,
>
> Hmm, I don't know, I think it's better to simply have said old_salt,
> old_iterations, old_derived_key. Pretty clear for newcomer to see exactly
> what the "junk" was. Anyway, no point arguing indefinitely here.
>
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