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@@ -422,6 +422,12 @@ documentation to a BitBake variable as follows::
CACHE[doc] = "The directory holding the cache of the metadata."
+.. note::
+
+ Variable flag names starting with an underscore (``_``) character
+ are allowed but are ignored by ``d.getVarFlags("VAR")``
+ in Python code. Such flag names are used internally by BitBake.
+
Inline Python Variable Expansion
--------------------------------