> > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 11:03:18AM -0400, John Morris wrote:
> > > I'm editing some code from Mailman and seeing:
> > >
> > > legend = _("%(hostname)s Mailing Lists")
> > >
> >
> > The outter parenthese are a function call. The underscore
> > is a name that has a callable as a value, I suppose. I
> > believe that the value of the name underscore is the last
> > expression evaluated, but I'm not sure.FWIW, I think that by convention _ is an alias for a translation function. In other words, this message is marked as one that is translatable. I'm only guessing, but I've run into this in some UI code in Python I've seen. By the way, I would like to say that I am somewhat of a newbie to Python, and also that I really appreciate the knowledge I've picked up on this list thus far. To all those of you who take time out of your busy day to answer questions, thank you! -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PaulWFrields irc.freenode.net: stickster @ #fedora-docs, #fedora-devel, #fredlug
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