Question about a single underscore.

[Steven W. Orr]

On Thursday, Feb 1st 2007 at 10:36 -0800, quoth Paul Rubin:

=>"Steven W. Orr" <steveo at syslang.net> writes:
=>> to cause a different instantiation a la
=>> foo	= _const()
=>> The goal would be to create different instances of consts.
=>
=>The idea of putting it in sys.modules is so it's visible in all modules.
=>
=>> >>> import const
=>> >>> iii=_const()
=>
=>You need 
=>   iii = const._const
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547 > python
Python 2.3.5 (#2, May  4 2005, 08:51:39) 
[GCC 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-12)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import const
>>> iii = const._const
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: _const instance has no attribute '_const'
*>>> iii = const._const()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
AttributeError: _const instance has no attribute '_const'
>>> 


What am I missing here? (Sorry if it should be obvious)

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