[Tutor] Question regarding syntax

[John Morris]

On 7/11/07, Andre Roberge <andre.roberge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> It is a standard convention.  Lots of tools are built on the
> assumption that translatable strings are going to be enclosed in
> _(...)
> These tools extract the strings from programs, and put them in files
> (.po) that are easily editable by human translators.
>
> This convention is *not* limited to Python.


So, it's used as a marker to allow for easy language portability for
internal text strings?
I did not know that.

Thanks!
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