Double underscores -- ugly?

[Asun Friere]

benhoyt wrote:
> Is it just me that thinks "__init__" is rather ugly?

I used to hate looking at and having the type out all those
underscores (surely two leading or one on either side would do?), but
I've gotten so used to it by now the eyes don't see and the fingers
work by themselves.

> Not to mention
> "if __name__ == '__main__': ..."?

Which ugliness is only trumped by the use of 'main' as a function name
thus:

if __name__ == '__main__' : main()