[Python-Dev] Is implicit underscore assignment buggy?
Fredrik Lundh
fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Jun 8 00:04:27 CEST 2006
Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> When the result of an expression is None, the interactive interpreter
> correctly suppresses the display of the result. However, it also
> suppresses the underscore assignment. I'm not sure if that is correct
> or desirable because a subsequent statement has no way of knowing
> whether the underscore assignment is current or whether it represents an
> earlier non-None result.
why would a subsequent statement need to know that ? are you sure you
didn't mean "user" instead of "subsequent statement" ?
for users, it's actually quite simple to figure out what's in the _
variable: it's the most recently *printed* result. if you cannot see
it, it's not in there.
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