On 9/11/2012 4:53 PM, e.doxta...@gmail.com wrote:
What is the significance of the leading underscore in "self._bongo"? I've seen this a few times and, after looking through PEP 8, I didn't see anything relevant, but I could have missed it.
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.
PEP 8 says this is bad form. What do you think?
Please quote the specific statement you want commented. The stdlib routinely uses _names for internal implementation objects. __ugh is perhaps never used.
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