On 10/09/12 08:59, D.M. Procida wrote: >> On 09/10/2012 14:24, D.M. Procida wrote: >>> What exactly is the point of a private method? Why or when would I want >>> to use one? > > In Python, using an underscore is simply a convention to note that a > method is private - it doesn't actually hide it from other things - > correct?
Correct. You can read the leading underscore as "if you use this, don't come crying if it breaks on you in a future version because we changed an internal implementation. We told you so." -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list