benhoyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Then again, what's stopping us just using a single leading underscore? > Nobody calls their own private methods _init or _add
You must be looking at different code from the rest of us. A single leading underscore on the name *is* the convention for "this attribute is not part of the external interface", which is about as "private" as Python normally gets. -- \ “God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is | `\ as indefensible as infanticide.” —Dame Rebecca West | _o__) | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list