http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/
The above webpage states the following naming convention. Such a variable can be an internal variable in a class. I'm wondering what is the naming convention for the method that access such variable. - _single_leading_underscore: weak "internal use" indicator. E.g. "from M import *" does not import objects whose name starts with an underscore. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list