dcrosta/python-guide — comment on commit a21305bc9dc9058573bf7d1506b5e0a3fe44f315
File: docs/writing/style.rst line 33
By ejucovy:

I think this idiom should not be encouraged, because the underscore character is already idiomatically overloaded -- ``_`` is also the conventional way to import "gettext"-type functions (a convention that extends beyond Python code) and is also used to refer to the result of the previous expression in the Python interactive shell.