Newbie asks about static variables...

[William Tanksley]

On Tue, 04 May 1999 20:44:16 +0200, Martijn Faassen wrote:

>Well, using a global variable would indeed be one way. One need not be
>as worried with global variables in Python, as there's a nice module
>system that puts them in their own namespaces. If you prepend your
>global variable with a _ then it doesn't get imported, even if you use
>'from <module> import *'.

You know, I've heard of a lot of very knowledgable people say that _ is
the prefix for hiding names, but when I tried it it didn't work.

Looking in the manual, I see that it claims that __ is the correct prefix;
and indeed, this seems to work.

So...  What am I missing?

>Martijn

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