Troy Melhase wrote: >> Why do people sometimes use one leading underscore? > > > Many folks like to use the single leading underscore to emphasize that > the attribute isn't part of the normal way to use the class or > instance. > > It's bad style in my opinion, but I'm probably in the minority.
I've increasingly found that leading underscores are unnecessary as well if not using a "magic" attribute with the bounding double underscores. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
