New submission from Lucian Ursu <lucian_ursu@yahoo.com>: I suggest that name mangling should not be recommended as a way of having private attributes. Instead, one underscore should be suggested as a signal that the attribute is private. This suggestion comes after discussing with some of the helpers from #python. Basically, they said that name mangling should never be used, so it would be appropriate to remove this recommendation from the tutorial. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 105161 nosy: LucianU, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Remove suggestion for name mangling from the tutorial type: feature request versions: Python 2.6 _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8638> _______________________________________