Private methods

[Tim Chase]

On 10/09/12 08:59, D.M. Procida wrote:
>> On 09/10/2012 14:24, D.M. Procida wrote:
>>> What exactly is the point of a private method? Why or when would I want
>>> to use one?
> 
> In Python, using an underscore is simply a convention to note that a
> method is private - it doesn't actually hide it from other things -
> correct?

Correct.  You can read the leading underscore as "if you use this,
don't come crying if it breaks on you in a future version because we
changed an internal implementation. We told you so."

-tkc