Single leading dash in member variable names?

[Erik Max Francis]

On 09/11/2012 01:53 PM, e.doxtator at gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 2:06:45 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM,  I wrote:
>>> What is the significance of the leading underscore in "self._bongo"?  I've seen this a few times and, after looking through PEP 8, I didn't see anything relevant, but I could have missed it.
>>
>> Single leading underscore is a convention indicating that the name
>> should be considered private and not used externally.  It's a softer
>> version of the double leading underscore that means basically the same
>> thing but has syntactic significance.
>
> Thank you!
>
> PEP 8 says this is bad form.  What do you think?

Where does it say that?

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