[Python-3000] Removing __var

[Jim Jewett]

On 10/1/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> I'm on the fence about dropping __var (some people back in the days
> *begged* for it, and it had nothing to do with super; I wonder what
> they think now).

Until Christian Tanzer's post, the only good use case I had seen was
extreme backwards compatibility for subclasses -- no additional names
would be used.  Are you suggesting

    (1)   another way to get a private namespace,
or (2)   the _name convention is sufficient

Either seems OK to me, but I do note that (2) doesn't work for
Christian's case. He isn't just warning people to be careful -- he
fully expects the child class to want the same private name.

-jJ