Name mangling

[ullrich at math.okstate.edu]

    I'm not going to tell you how long it took me to
figure out that the problem with

__foo = 42

class C:
	def __init__(self):
		self.value = __foo

c = C()

was inadvertent name mangling. (To be fair, the problem
arose in a slightly more complicated context. No, I'm
not going to say why I changed _foo to __foo in the first
place either.)

     But usually when I don't get something it's because
I haven't found the right page in the docs. Here that's
not the case - I don't see how the bit in the docs about
name mangling says that the code above should not work.
???

DU


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