Newb question: underscore

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

cokofreedom at gmail.com a écrit :
>>> 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.
>>
> 
> Well _ can also mean the previous output statement that wasn't null,

In the shell only IIRC.