Why all the __double_underscored_vars__?

r rt8396 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 19:40:14 EDT 2009


On Aug 7, 5:13 pm, Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 5:51 PM, kj<no.em... at please.post> wrote:
> > Python is chock-full of identifiers beginning and ending with double
> > underscores, such as __builtin__, __contains__, and __coerce__.
...(snip)
> Right, but the *users* of the functionality provided by __methods__
...(snip)
> Cheers,
> Chris

Yes and Python's way is by-far the proper way to handle such
functionailty. Don't thank god, thank Guido



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