'_' and '__'
Karsten Hilbert
Karsten.Hilbert at gmx.net
Sun May 27 04:40:08 EDT 2018
On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 10:36:30AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> Nick also explains that, because the name ‘_’ has too many conventional
> meanings already, the name ‘__’ is better for “don't need this value but
> I am required to specify a name”.
_() is often bound to gettext.gettext() in the global
namespace, so we'd better avoid that or else ...
[ _(_) for _ in '123' ]
... will fail :-)
Karsten
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