Single leading dash in member variable names?
Erik Max Francis
max at alcyone.com
Tue Sep 11 18:02:31 EDT 2012
On 09/11/2012 01:53 PM, e.doxtator at gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 2:06:45 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM, I wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Single leading underscore is a convention indicating that the name
>> should be considered private and not used externally. It's a softer
>> version of the double leading underscore that means basically the same
>> thing but has syntactic significance.
>
> Thank you!
>
> PEP 8 says this is bad form. What do you think?
Where does it say that?
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