On Jun 4, 4:09 am, "Russ P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is it about leading underscores that bothers me? To me, they are > like a small pebble in your shoe while you are on a hike. Yes, you can > live with it, and it does no harm, but you still want to get rid of it.
With leading underscores, you can see *at the point of dereference* that the code is accessing private data. With a "this is private" keyword you have no idea whether you're accessing private or public data, because the two namespaces get conflated together. I'll keep my pebble, thanks. Cheers, Nick. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
