> I gues my question is, can users safely rely on _<something> methods? >
The change revert is due this concern about api reliability, so adapters behave as specified in http://www.web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/06/the-database-abstraction-layer?search=_insert#Raw-SQL What is w2p's "policy" regarding underscore-prefixed functions. > Are they considered private? > Underscore is required in some cases for example to avoid name collisions. I suppose that the policy about the use of underscore follows the pep8 style guide except for special cases described in the book. For example (chapter 4): Functions that take arguments or start with a double underscore are not > publicly exposed and can only be called by other functions. So can I use the above function as it is? > I think so > What do you mean by "temporarily"? > Could the feature be implemented in the future with a different name? It could, If there's agreement about adding it to the adapter. -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
