> > 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, so it has OTHER uses... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
