Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

[Paul Rubin]

Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno.42.desthuilliers at websiteburo.invalid> writes:
> Given that the convention for "protected" attributes in Python is to
> prefix them with an underscore, I fail to see how one could
> "accidentally" mess with implementation details. Typing a leading
> underscore is rarely a typo.

We are talking about the accidental creation of new attributes in
places outside the initializer.  The underscore convention does
nothing to prevent that.