Re: [Tutor] under, under

2013-05-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On 14/05/13 02:21, Stafford Baines wrote: Please explain the significance of __some term__. For example __name__ as in If __name__ == '__main__': main() When is the under, under used? Underscores are legal characters in names. So you can write: some_term = whatever() and it is a le

Re: [Tutor] under, under

2013-05-13 Thread eryksun
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Dave Angel wrote: > Underscores aren't anything special to the Python language itself, whether > leading or trailing. I'm pretty sure you were just talking about dunder, dunder. Underscores in general do have special uses in the language. They're used to enable na

Re: [Tutor] under, under

2013-05-13 Thread Jonatán Guadamuz Espinoza
On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Stafford Baines wrote: > > Please explain the significance of __some term__. For example __name__ as in > > If __name__ == ‘__main__’: > > main() > > When is the under, under used? Section 2.3.2 http://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#reserve

Re: [Tutor] under, under

2013-05-13 Thread Dave Angel
On 05/13/2013 12:21 PM, Stafford Baines wrote: Please explain the significance of __some term__. For example __name__ as in If __name__ == '__main__': main() When is the under, under used? (Please don't start a second thread with identical content 20 minutes after the first) Undersc

[Tutor] under, under

2013-05-13 Thread Stafford Baines
Please explain the significance of __some term__.For example __name__ as in If __name__ == '__main__': main() When is the under, under used? Regards, Stafford ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subsc

Re: [Tutor] under, under

2013-05-13 Thread Joel Goldstick
I have seen (and enjoy) people calling double underscore as 'Dunder' On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Natal Ngétal wrote: > On 05/13/13 17:21, Stafford Baines wrote: > > When is the under, under used? > It depends the context, for example __name__ represent the name of the > current > package.

Re: [Tutor] under, under

2013-05-13 Thread Natal Ngétal
On 05/13/13 17:21, Stafford Baines wrote: > When is the under, under used? It depends the context, for example __name__ represent the name of the current package. The __init__ it's object methode to initialize the object, and so on. -- \0/ Hobbestigrou site web: erakis.eu L'Europe est trop grande

[Tutor] under, under

2013-05-13 Thread Stafford Baines
Please explain the significance of __some term__. For example __name__ as in If __name__ == '__main__': main() When is the under, under used? Regards, Stafford ___ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscripti