Ben Finney wrote: >> I realise that double underscores make the language conceptually >> cleaner in many ways (because fancy syntax and operator overloading >> are just handled by methods), but they don't *look* nice. > > That's a good thing, in that it draws attention to the names.
Well, double underscore is awful when you have to read code with the wrong typeface, possibly printed. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list