[Dev] Re: new schema type Python syntax

Phillip J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Thu Jul 28 16:44:26 PDT 2005


At 04:19 PM 7/28/2005 -0700, Andi Vajda wrote:

>Could we please, please, please *not* use _() as this blows away the 
>python shell's _ symbol which is conveniently the last value returned 
>(like Lisp's *). It makes debugging that much harder.

Andi, I think you're thinking of __builtin__._, which is what gettext 
installs.  Using an explicit import of LocalizableString as _ (which is 
what I suggest) should not affect the shell's namespace at all.



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