On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 2:06:45 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM, I wrote: > > > All > > > > > > Python noob here. Trying to understand a particular syntax: > > > > > > class stuff: > > > def __init__(self): > > > self._bongo = "BongoWorld" > > > > > > ----------- > > > > > > 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.
Thank you! PEP 8 says this is bad form. What do you think? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
