About the use of **args

[Fredrik Lundh]

Jacek Generowicz wrote:

> I find the suggestion that a mangled name is somehow "more private"
> than one with a single leading underscore, mildly insulting to the
> clients of your code. The implcation is that they can neither work out
> the (very complicated and cryptic[*]) mangling scheme, not use dir().

no, the implication is that they can use their own __variables without
having to think about what you're calling your private parts.

in contrast, a _variable is not hidden at all.

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