On 2006-07-25 05:16:04, Wesley Brooks wrote: >> prefix your names with _ or __. Both are ommited from autogenerated >> docuementation and both are OFFICALLY not supposed to be used. >> > > Could you elaborate on that a little or point me in the right direction to > read up on it? I'm currently re-writing a large lump of my coding and trying > to use best practice. I thought it was considered good practice to make > stuff private (in this case using __ ) that wasn't intened to be accessed > from outside the function/class?
I think fuzzylollipop meant that such members should not be used from the outside of the class; that is, they should be considered implementation, not API. (Which is why apparently autogenerated docs leave them out.) Gerhard -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
