[Steven] > Can someone give me an example of where __-mangling really solved a problem > for them, where a simple leading underscore wouldn't have solved the > same problem?
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/spambayes/spambayes/spambayes/Dibbler.py?r1=1.13&r2=1.13.4.1 That's a bugfix to SpamBayes, where I'd inadvertently named an instance variable '_map' without realising that the base class (asynchat.async_chat) also had an instance variable of that name. Using double underscores fixed it, and had I used them from the beginning the bug would never have cropped up (even if asynchat.async_chat had an instance variable named '__map', which is the whole point (which you know, Steven, but others might not)). -- Richie Hindle [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
