21 Jan
2002
21 Jan
'02
7:10 p.m.
"GvR" == Guido van Rossum
writes:
GvR> The _ name is already overloaded with multiple meanings in GvR> the Python community: it's a shorthand for the last evaluated GvR> expression in interactive mode, and some people use it as a GvR> dummy variable to assign uninteresting results to. It's also the common name of a function in internationalized Python applications (mostly inherited from established conventions in the C world). -Barry