On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > 2) "this is a non-public thing", as in > > class Xyz: > _private = 1
Your three meanings all have the etymology of "ignore me", but I would distinguish this one from the others. An underscore used on its own has meaning; an underscore as part of a larger token has quite different meaning, and can have any of several - "private-ish" (as above), "mangle me" (double leading, no trailing), "magic" (dunder - double leading/double trailing), and "word separator" (between_multiple_words_in_an_identifier). Your other two examples are what we're talking about here, though. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
