Pronouncing '__init__'

Oren Tirosh oren-py-l at hishome.net
Sat Jun 15 09:59:15 EDT 2002


On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 01:44:10PM +0200, holger krekel wrote:
> for oral language:
> 
>     init constructor
> 
> and if the context allows
> 
>     init
> 
> for written languange __init__
> 
> Isn't it obvious? :-)
> 
>     holger

I used __init__ just as an example.  I meant how do you pronounce names 
with leading and trailing double underscore in general.  The magic name 
__init__ may be by far the one most commonly encountered in everyday 
programming but __there__ __are__ __many__ __others__.

	Oren





More information about the Python-list mailing list