The appended email crossed the transom at webmaster@python.org today. Apologies for the hot mess Gmail makes of forwarded emails.

I wonder if it makes sense to warn about misspelled dunder names. I tried pylinting (1.1.0, sorry, it's what I have here at work) and flake8ing (2.0) this:

class Foo(object):
    def __init_(self):
        self.x = 0

    def _add_(self, other):
        return self.x + other.x

Pylint complained about attribute x not being defined in __init__, but that's a rather indirect message. It failed to say anything about _add_. Flake8 said nothing.

Is this a common enough problem that these sort of tools should warn about mistakes in the leading/trailing underscore count of otherwise dunder attributes?

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: protestmailself <protestmailself@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 1:56 AM
Subject: Re: The doc demo have some problems
To: webmaster <webmaster@python.org>


Hi:

     I make a mistake using 
       _init_  not the __init__

protestmailself
 
Date: 2014-11-21 15:30
Subject: The doc demo have some problems
Hi:
 
    I using the code at location: [https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/classes.html] using python 2.7.8
      class Complex:

def _init_(self, realpart, imagpart):

self.r = realpart

self.i = imagpart

      x = Complex(3.0, -4.5)
      x.r, x.i
 
     I got the error: TypeError: this constructor takes no arguments
     i think this is a mistake as the demo not define a constructor, but use a constructor with two arguments.
     Change to this can be passed.
      class Complex:

r = 0

i = 0

def _init_(self, realpart, imagpart):

self.r = realpart

self.i = imagpart

    x = Complex()

    x._init_(3.0, -4.5)

      x.r, x.i


Best regards
protestmailself