Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> added the comment:
See: <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/228783/what-are-the-rules-about-using-an-underscore-in-a-c-identifier> Basically all names starting with double underscores are reserved for the implementation in C++. Likewise for all names starting with an underscore when defining globals (such as function names). IIRC C has similar rules for double underscores and for underscore followed by an uppercase letter, but I don't have a handy reference for those. In general Python's use of these symbols should be safe enough, it is highly unlikely that a C/C++ implementation uses names starting with "_Py" even if those are reserved for the implementation. @elfring: Do you run into actual problems due to Python's use of these identifiers? ---------- nosy: +ronaldoussoren _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue35671> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
