python underscore function name

Question

I was reading the django article on form validatin here and i came across this

ValidationError(_('Invalid value'), code='invalid')

my question is what does the _('Invalid value') does?

possible duplicate of [Mercurial/Python - What Does The Underscore Function Do?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3077227/mercurial-python-what-does-the-underscore-function-do) — juankysmith, Aug 26 '13 at 13:14

score 10 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 26 '13 at 12:11

10

it's for translation purpose

you should see this at the begining of the script

from django.utils.translation import ugettext as _

edited Aug 26 '13 at 12:11

Aamir Rind

answered Aug 26 '13 at 12:06

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

2

_ is often associated with internationalization

edited May 23 '17 at 12:01

Community

answered Aug 26 '13 at 12:06

a14m

2 Answers2