[Python-Dev] PEP 8 and optional underscores

[Georg Brandl]

Nick Coghlan schrieb:
> Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Benjamin Peterson
>>> <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
>>>>>>   Nick>      def getName(self):
>>>>>>   Nick>          assert self.__initialized, "Thread.__init__() not called"
>>>>>>   Nick>          return self.__name
>>>>> Why is __name private to begin with?  Any reason for the getters and
>>>>> setters?  Why isn't this just an attribute?
>>>> In 3.x, it's just an attribute.
>>> Oh, is it? Where's the PEP with the API redesign? Did I miss some kind
>>> of decision-making process, weighing compatibility concerns against
>>> other issues?
>> 
>> meaning that it only has one underscore. They methods still live.
> 
> That's worse - it means it can now collide with _name attributes on 
> subclasses.
> 
> This has become a lot more complicated than what I thought we were 
> doing: adding PEP 8 compliant aliases for the existing methods without 
> otherwise changing the threading implementation. As far as I can recall, 
> that is all that was contained in the 2.x patch I reviewed.

The move to _attributes instead of __attributes was done quite a while
earlier, in r57222, by Guido himself.

Georg

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