On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > PEP 8 states that developers should never invent their own dunder methods: > > __double_leading_and_trailing_underscore__ : > "magic" objects or attributes that live in user-controlled > namespaces. E.g. __init__ , __import__ or __file__ . Never > invent such names; only use them as documented. > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#naming-conventions > > > In other words, dunder methods are reserved for use by the core developers > for the use of the Python interpreter. > > Apart from PEP 8, is this documented anywhere in the official documentation? > If so, I have been unable to find it.
https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#reserved-classes-of-identifiers -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
