Underscore data hiding (was python development practices?)

[Anthony Baxter]

>>> Skip Montanaro wrote
> scripting language for the Amoeba distributed operating system.  The fact
> that Python is "fast enough" for many things you might apply C++ to is in
> large part because:

Not forgetting the other point - it's usually very easy to optimise
your application by recoding the performance critical fragment in C.
Python's just so damn easy to extend...

Anthony