[Python-ideas] Allow "assigning" to Ellipse to discard values.

[Ethan Furman]

On 02/11/2015 03:01 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> On 12 February 2015 at 01:46, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
>>
>> The actual deal with that is when you are using gettext or a
>> similar I18N framework :-)
> 
> I switched my own dummy variable recommendation to a double-underscore
> years ago for exactly that reason. It (very) mildly irritates me that
> so many sources still recommend the single-underscore that clobbers
> the conventional name for the gettext translation builtin :)

Python 3.4.3rc1+ (3.4:645f3d750be1, Feb 10 2015, 13:25:59)
[GCC 4.7.3] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
--> _
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name '_' is not defined
--> import gettext
--> gettext._
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute '_'

What globalness are you talking about?

--
~Ethan~

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