[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Modules unicodedata.c,2.16,2.17

Michael Hudson mwh@python.net
17 Jun 2002 10:54:51 +0100


Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:

> > in my experience, simple names without underscores always conflicts
> > with something on platforms that I don't have access to, while simple
> > names with leading underscores never causes any problems...
> 
> Unfortunately, that's exactly the opposite of what the C
> standardization committee wants you to do.

Huh?  I thought underscore-lowercase character was fine, and
double-underscore and underscore-capital were the verboten
combinations.

Cheers,
M.

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