Newb question: underscore

John Fabiani jfabiani at yolo.com
Fri Jun 6 00:15:10 EDT 2008


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?
> 
> Thanks!
I think it is standard practice to use the underscore for unicode converts.



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