Martin, The comparison to Java is a good one. I program in Java for a living and find that I tend to think of my Activity logic in Java terms then translate the concept to Python. I do the same thing with pygtk and Java Swing. Last night I removed most of the leading underscores from my code. I'll gradually start putting some back in where it makes sense, using the private/protected criteria as a guide. I know the the copied code I was using was not resulting in code that followed best practices.
Thanks again, James Simmons > IMO: > > - one leading underscore is "private" ("weak internal use") or, in > the context of inheritance, like java's "protected" (private to a > class and its subclasses but can be / is expected to be overridden). > > - two leading underscores is "extra private" ("strong internal use") > or, in the context of inheritance, like java's "private" (private to > a class and not visible to subclasses without good, > you-better-know-why-you're-thumbing-your-nose-at-name-mangling > reasons). > >> So when do you use leading underscores to name something? Or do you >> ever use them? > > They're used a lot by python code. One should almost certainly be > using them in code that's used by other code. > >> Thanks, >> >> James Simmons > > Martin > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel