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Re: Single underscore in interactive mode

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On 6/25/2014 11:20 AM, candide wrote:
> According to the official documentation (The Python Language Reference, Release 3.2):
>
>
> -----------------------------------
> The special identifier _ is used in the interactive interpreter to
> store the result of the last evaluation;
> -----------------------------------
>
>
> This description is not very specific.

Please say either in a tracker issue or here where you found this 
statement. I think 'evaluation' should be changed to 'non-None 
expression statement' and 'see sys.displayhook' added, linked to the 
entry in the sys doc.


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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Single underscore in interactive mode candide <c.candide@laposte.net> - 2014-06-25 08:20 -0700
  Re: Single underscore in interactive mode Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2014-06-25 18:53 +0100
  Re: Single underscore in interactive mode Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2014-06-25 14:30 -0400
    Re: Single underscore in interactive mode candide <c.candide@laposte.net> - 2014-06-25 12:39 -0700
  Re: Single underscore in interactive mode Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> - 2014-06-25 19:57 +0100
  Re: Single underscore in interactive mode Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-06-25 17:56 -0400

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