This is by design.
The intent is that as long as you call something that returns no
value, your last result is not thrown away. IOW _ is the last result
that wasn't None.
Please don't change this.
--Guido
On 6/7/06, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When the result of an expression is None, the interactive interpreter
> correctly suppresses the display of the result. However, it also
> suppresses the underscore assignment. I'm not sure if that is correct
> or desirable because a subsequent statement has no way of knowing
> whether the underscore assignment is current or whether it represents an
> earlier non-None result.
>
> Here's an example from a co-worker's regular expression experiments:
>
> >>> import re, string
> >>> re.search('lmnop', string.letters)
> <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0xb6f2c480>
> >>> re.search('pycon', string.letters)
> >>> if _ is not None:
> ... print _.group()
> lmnop
>
>
>
> Raymond
>
>
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