[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-520325 ] Double underscore needs clarification

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Bugs item #520325, was opened at 2002-02-19 23:44
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Category: Documentation
Group: Python 2.3
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Wayne C. Smith (wcsmith)
Assigned to: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Summary: Double underscore needs clarification

Initial Comment:
Double underscore (DU) is pervasive in Python but

nowhere is clearly explained.  In print and onscreen

from formatted html it is visually ambiguous because

the DUs run together to appear as one.  The table in

2.3.2 of the Reference Manual 2.3a0 2/4/02 presents the

contrast with single underscore but it is subtle.  The

usage of DU should be clarified in accompanying text

and perhaps mentioned again in the Library Reference.

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>Comment By: Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake)
Date: 2003-09-05 23:50

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I've substantially elaborated the explanations at that point

in the reference manual in Doc/ref/ref2.tex:



Python 2.2.4:  revision 1.34.6.8

Python 2.3.1:  revision 1.48.10.1

Python 2.4:  revision 1.49



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