On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:53 PM, <e.doxta...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 2:06:45 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote: >> Single leading underscore is a convention indicating that the name >> should be considered private and not used externally. It's a softer >> version of the double leading underscore that means basically the same >> thing but has syntactic significance. > > Thank you! > > PEP 8 says this is bad form. What do you think?
Where are you seeing that? It says: Use one leading underscore only for non-public methods and instance > variables. > > To avoid name clashes with subclasses, use two leading underscores to > invoke Python's name mangling rules. > > ... Generally, double leading underscores should be used only to avoid > name conflicts with attributes in classes designed to be subclassed. > So a single leading underscore is the preferred style for non-public methods and attributes.
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