[Tutor] Anyone using tarfile?

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Tue Jul 15 20:07:59 CEST 2008


On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:31 PM, Terry Carroll <carroll at tjc.com> wrote:

> For another thing, "prefix" still isn't documented; I'd have expected the
> variable name to be along the lines of _prefix, or not retained in the
> class instance if it wasn't intended for consumption.  But that might just
> be my naivete.

I guess someone agreed with you. In the current version, 'prefix' is
not an instance attribute, it is just a local variable in a couple of
functions / methods. So there is no need to document it or use a
different name.

Kent


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