Python design philosophy

[Grant Edwards]

In article <aJr65.11287$227.233074 at nnrp1.uunet.ca>, Warren Postma wrote:

>> I am *brand* new to python (as of Sunday), and I just got to
>> the section in the tutorial about classes.  I was wondering why
>> there really isn't such an idea as a "private" member of
>> classes?

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>Now, sometimes an idiom replaces a keyword.  For example, if
>you want something to be apparently private, one idiom is to
>append underscores to
 ^^^^^^
prepend?

>the name, which in programmer-idiomspeak means "don't mess with
>this if you know what's good for you". 

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