Single leading dash in member variable names?
e.doxtator at gmail.com
e.doxtator at gmail.com
Tue Sep 11 16:53:26 EDT 2012
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 2:06:45 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM, I wrote:
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> > All
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> > Python noob here. Trying to understand a particular syntax:
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> > class stuff:
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> > def __init__(self):
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> > self._bongo = "BongoWorld"
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> > -----------
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> > What is the significance of the leading underscore in "self._bongo"? I've seen this a few times and, after looking through PEP 8, I didn't see anything relevant, but I could have missed it.
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> Single leading underscore is a convention indicating that the name
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> should be considered private and not used externally. It's a softer
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> version of the double leading underscore that means basically the same
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> thing but has syntactic significance.
Thank you!
PEP 8 says this is bad form. What do you think?
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