[Python-ideas] Allow "assigning" to Ellipse to discard values.

[Nikolaus Rath]

On Feb 11 2015, Ethan Furman <ethan-gcWI5d7PMXnvaiG9KC9N7Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On 02/11/2015 03:15 PM, Eric V. Smith wrote:
>
>> Thanks, Thunderbird, for mangling that for me. Hopefully this works better:
>> 
>>--> import gettext
>>--> gettext.install('foo')
>>--> _
>> <bound method NullTranslations.gettext of gettext.NullTranslations
>> instance at 0xffeb65cc>>
>
> Oh, cool.  It is somewhat amusing to see the stdlib doing something we
> are usually strongly advised against -- adding things to __bulitins__
> ;) . (Yes, I agree it is a good case... still amusing.)

Why is that a good case? What's wrong with e.g.
 _ = gettext.install('foo')
or
 from gettext import _
?

Thanks,
Nikolaus

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