What is the naming convention for accessor of a 'private' variable?

[Ben Finney]

Peng Yu <pengyu.ut at gmail.com> writes:

> The above webpage states the following naming convention. Such a
> variable can be an internal variable in a class. I'm wondering what is
> the naming convention for the method that access such variable.

A property <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#property>
named with a regular public attribute name::

    class Foo(object):

        def __init__(self, spam):
            self._spam = spam

        @property
        def spam(self):
            return self._spam

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Ben Finney