On 14/11/2010 16:40, Roy Smith wrote:
In article<mailman.986.1289747396.2218.python-l...@python.org>,
David<bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 15/11/2010, otenki<scott.stephen...@gmail.com> wrote:
When I enter 'from _future_ import division' at the command
line, I get the ImportError, no module named _future_.
The module name is "__future__"
Notice that there are 2 underscore characters before the word "future"
and 2 after it. This is a common convention in python.
I suppose the double-underscore convention was a questionable choice,
given how many fixed width fonts make it difficult to discern the gap
between them. In fact, in most fonts, it's an intentional design goal
that they run together (think of it as a sort of recurisive ligature).
That being said, it is what it is, and isn't changing.
[snip]
Guido chose double underscores because CPython is written in C and
that's what C uses. It's true that with hindsight it was a mistake...
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