Hi Tony Absolutely. The “long underscore” is just a display thing. Underneath it is always two underscores. The only difference is what your editor is showing (or how the underscore is drawn in the display font - as some fonts make the underscore the full width or slightly over the edge of where the character will be displayed so that many underscores look all joined up like a line)
These links may provide you with some useful reading around this and what underscores signal in Python. https://dbader.org/blog/meaning-of-underscores-in-python https://dbader.org/blog/python-dunder-methods Happy to have helped and good luck with your Python journey. Regards Alexander Alexander Neilson Neilson Productions Limited 021 329 681 alexan...@neilson.net.nz > On 24/06/2020, at 08:49, Tony Kaloki <tkal...@live.co.uk> wrote: > > > Alexander, > Thank you so much! It worked! Thank you. One question: in > your reply, are you saying that Python would have treated the two separate > underscores the same way as a long underscore i.e. it's a stylistic choice > rather than a functional necessity? > In any case, thanks again for your quick and easy to follow - even for me > - reply. > Tony > > Get Outlook for Android > > From: Alexander Neilson <alexan...@neilson.net.nz> > Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 9:28:37 PM > To: Tony Kaloki <tkal...@live.co.uk> > Cc: python-list@python.org <python-list@python.org> > Subject: Re: Pycharm Won't Do Long Underscore > > Hi Tony > > The “long underscore” (often called Dunder as “double underscore”) is > actually two underscores as you are seeing shown in PyCharm. > > However the display of it as one long underscore is a ligature (special font > display to communicate clearer) and to enable these in PyCharm go to the > settings dialog (depending on windows or Mac this could be in different > locations) and select Editor > Font > > In that screen select “enable font ligatures” and if your font supports it > (like the default JetBrains Mono does) that will start to display the double > underscores as a single long underscore. > > Regards > Alexander > > Alexander Neilson > Neilson Productions Limited > 021 329 681 > alexan...@neilson.net.nz > > > On 24/06/2020, at 07:57, Tony Kaloki <tkal...@live.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows > > 10 > > > > From: Tony Kaloki<mailto:tkal...@live.co.uk> > > Sent: 23 June 2020 19:45 > > To: python-list@python.org<mailto:python-list@python.org> > > Subject: Pycharm Won't Do Long Underscore > > > > > > Hi Guys, > > I’ve just begun to learn basic computer programming by > > downloading Python and Pycharm and following Youtube tutorials. But I’ve > > come across a problem that’s stopped me in my tracks. > > When I try to do a long underscore __ for classes in Pycharm, it only > > gives me two separate single underscores _ _. This is only in Pycharm, no > > problems anywhere else. Could you tell me how to fix this, because I can’t > > find any answers on the web and I’m not sure if I can go any further in my > > learning without being able to get long underscores. > > Sorry if I’m just being really dense, but like I said I’m an absolute > > beginner. Thanks for your time, > > Tony > > Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows > > 10 > > > > > > -- > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
