Terry J. Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> added the comment:

Double underscore name mangling is for avoiding name clashes with base classes, 
not for 'private attributes'. This is such an advanced and rarely used feature 
that it hardly seems appropriate for the tutorial.

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nosy: +tjreedy

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