Newb question: underscore

[Ben Finney]

bvdp <bob at mellowood.ca> writes:

> My question is: Why would anyone decide to obfuscate something as easy
> to read as Python???

They didn't decide to obfuscate; they decided to follow a
strongly-expected convention for the name of that function by existing
users of the 'gettext' functionality, in contexts that predate the
appearance of that functionality in Python.

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Ben Finney