[snip]I used double underscore because I thought it was the correct way to name private variables/methods - I will have to change those to single underscore since that it the current methodology.
A private variable to me: 1) is internal to the processing of a class and needs not be accessed by external or derivated objects.
2) Must not be documented to library users as they're using it would go againts 'law' 1).
Yeah, I use single-underscores for similar reasons, and so that PythonWin doesn't show my "private" variables in the drop-down list of object attributes. I think for most uses, no name-mangling is required...
Of course, I could generate an arbitrary number of "problem cases" -- I just don't think they happen often in real code...
Steve -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
