Double underscores -- ugly?

[Ben Finney]

benhoyt <benhoyt at gmail.com> writes:

> Then again, what's stopping us just using a single leading underscore?
> Nobody calls their own private methods _init or _add

You must be looking at different code from the rest of us. A single
leading underscore on the name *is* the convention for "this attribute
is not part of the external interface", which is about as "private" as
Python normally gets.

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Ben Finney