[Python-Dev] __mangled in stdlib considered poor form

[Barry Warsaw]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 14:50, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> There's one potential use case where I'd like to keep the private name
> even if there's a mangled use of it nearby: when the private name
> really is intended to be private, and the mangled use is a "friend" in
> the C++ sense. Sometimes (though rarely) the stdlib has to indulge in
> practices that aren't good example code, because it's the stdlib, and
> it should implement functionality in the most bulletproof way
> possible. Using private names for internal details is the right thing
> sometimes.

Please don't just mindlessly change all leading double underscores to
singles.  +1, when following Guido's guidelines above though.

-Barry

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