Newbie asks about static variables...

[Stefan Franke]

On Thu, 06 May 1999 10:06:33 +0200, Martijn Faassen <faassen at pop.vet.uu.nl>
wrote:

>A global variable _foo indeed isn't imported if you do a
>'from module import *'. But it's perfectly possible to do 'import
>module; print module._foo', it turns out to my surprise! This seems to
>me rather inconsistent behavior; is there a reason why this is so?

AFAIK the leading underscore convention was introduced exactly
for the reason to avoid namespace pollution when doing a 'from 
module import * ', not as a kind of access control, like the two 
leading underscores inside class definitions.

Stefan