On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:33:03 -0000, loial <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'ma a newbie python user and would like clarification on variable >naming conventions. > >What is the difference between > >self.myvariable
This is the convention for public attributes. >self._myvariable This is the convention for private attributes. >self.__myvariable This causes the name to be mangled in an inconvenient way by the runtime. You probably /don't/ want to name your variables like this, since the consequence is primarily that the result is harder to use. Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
