Why prefix with an underscore?

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 08:24:41AM -0500, MDK wrote:
> I am wondering why I see some people's code with function definitions
> prefixed with an underscore.
> 
> def _myfunct(foo):
> Does this mean something to the code or is it for some other reason?

   from amodule import * does not import names with the underscore.

Oleg.
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