On 2011年6月14日 01:55:04 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 1:37 AM, Tim Johnson <tim at johnsons-web.com> > wrote: >> On a related note: from the python interpreter if I do >>>>> help(_) >> I get >> Help on bool object: >>>> class bool(int) >> | bool(x) -> bool >> ...... >> I'd welcome comments on this as well. >> _ is special to IDLE. Not just IDLE. Also the vanilla Python command line interpreter. In fact, you can even find the code that controls it: help(sys.displayhook) http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html#sys.displayhook -- Steven