"Mel Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Point of information, would this be the interpreter putting > the result of its last calculation in _ ?
Yes, in interactive mode (but not in batch mode) it binds the valid name '_' to the result of statement expressions. > >>> [2*x for x in range(5)] > [0, 2, 4, 6, 8] > >>> _[4] > 8 which here is the list. Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list