Double underscores -- ugly?

[Ben Finney]

Ivan Illarionov <ivan.illarionov at gmail.com> writes:

> I would like to see something like %init or &init to be converted to
> __init__ behind the scenes.

I would prefer that the names I create and see in the code are the
names actually used by the Python runtime, with no magic name
conversion "behind the scenes".

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Ben Finney