Newb question: underscore

[Gary Herron]

Skye wrote:
> What is this doing?
>
>     print >> fd, _(__doc__)
>
>
> I'm guessing line-splitting __doc__ into a list, but what's that
> leading underscore do?
>   

It's calling a function with a single argument, like sqrt(x), except the 
function is named _ and the argument is named __doc__.   The underscores 
have no special significance here, but they do make the code hard to read.

The first part of the statement directs the print to send the output to 
a file, named fd, which was presumably opened earlier ... but I don't 
think that was part of your question.

Gary Herron

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