On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Joshua Landau <joshua.landau...@gmail.com> wrote: > If I were to use internal double-underscored names of the form > __BS_internalname__, would the compiled code be able to assume that no-one > had overwritten these variables and never will, even through modification > of, say, locals(). I ask because Python's docs seem to specify that double > sided double underscored names are strictly for Python and its special > names.
Interesting. If you're compiling your code to Python, you may be able to, if necessary, adorn a user's variable name(s). I'd be inclined to use a single underscore notation like _BS_internalname_ and then, in the event of a collision (which would be incredibly unlikely unless someone's fiddling), rename the offending variable to _BS_BS_something_ - which of course you'd never yourself use. Would that serve? ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
