Why self?

[Grant Edwards]

In article <zcoW8.626783$%y.39202464 at bin4.nnrp.aus1.giganews.com>, Terry Reedy wrote:
> 
> "Robb Shecter" <rs at onsitetech.com> wrote in message
> news:3D29CE9D.4000802 at onsitetech.com...
>> Matt Gerrans wrote:
>> I completely agree, but I think the situation's even worse than you
>> described:  A'typical' case of standard OO programming is made the
> most
>> tedious to write:  References to instance variables from methods:
>>
>>      self.__velocity = self.__factor1 * self.__factor2
>>
>> etc.  I find this totally unreadable (7 extra characters per
> referenced
>> instance variable).
> 
> Only 2 'extra' chars are needed -- a letter and '.'.  Why the extra
> '__'?

Thy're "private" instance variables.  Whereas other languages
provide a declaration for such a propterty, you get a similar
result in Python by mangling the name...

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