Name conflict in class hierarchy

bruno at modulix onurb at xiludom.gro
Mon May 22 04:23:04 EDT 2006


Ralf Muschall wrote:
> Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> 
> [overriding of base class member functions by subclass]
> 
(snip)
> 
> In Python, a function not intended to be overriden should be either
> have a name starting with an underscore

actually with *two* underscores. The single-leading-underscore naming
scheme is the convention for 'protected' (read: 'implementation, not
API') attributes.

> or be documented.

s/or/and/


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bruno desthuilliers
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