[Python-Dev] OT: style convention: self vs. _ in new Norvig's book

[Barry A. Warsaw]

>>>>> "GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> 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