On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 5:02:31 PM UTC-5, Erik Max Francis wrote: > On 09/11/2012 01:53 PM, me wrote: > > > On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 2:06:45 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote: > > >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM, I wrote: > > >>> 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? > > > > Where does it say that?
Apologies. It's in David Goodger's "Code Like A Pythonista" in the "Naming" section. (http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html#naming) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
