Newb question: underscore

[Ben Finney]

Skye <spoier at gmail.com> writes:

> What is this doing?
> 
>     print >> fd, _(__doc__)

Without any context, it's impossible to know.

> I'm guessing line-splitting __doc__ into a list, but what's that
> leading underscore do?

Look at the rest of the module to see where that name comes from;
perhaps an assignment, or an 'import foo as _'.

My guess would be someone has used the common convention of naming the
"get the corresponding localised version of this string from the
application's gettext database" function as '_' for convenience.

That's only a guess though; you should believe the code you have in
front of you, not my guesses.

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Ben Finney