Reprint: R1207B. Executives complain, with justification, that meddling and second-guessing from shareholders are making it ever harder for them to do their jobs effectively. Shareholders complain, with justification, of executives who pocket staggering paychecks while delivering mediocre results.
The underscore [ _ ] (also called understrike, underbar, or underline) is a character that originally appeared on the typewriter and was primarily used to underline words.
A single underscore before a name is used to specify that the name is to be treated as âprivateâ by a programmer. Itâs kind of* a convention so that the next person (or yourself) using your code knows that a name starting with _ is for internal use. As the Python documentation notes: