Why self?

[Louis M. Pecora]

In article <3D2B5331.7090104 at onsitetech.com>, Robb Shecter
<rs at onsitetech.com> wrote:

> should really be written like this:
> 
> self.__y = self.__x**2 * self.__t/self.__z + self.__a * FFT(self.__tseries)
> 
> to be safe from accidental overwriting by subclasses.  Now there's a 
> beauty!  :-)


Eeeewwwww!  I am not familiar with the double underscore syntax.  Can
you explain it.  OK, I guess I can go online and read about it.  I'm a
Python user, but not guru.  Sorry.

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Lou Pecora
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