Skye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- \ "Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?" "Well, I think | `\ so, Brain, but 'apply North Pole' to what?" -- _Pinky and The | _o__) Brain_ | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
