Single leading dash in member variable names?
e.doxtator at gmail.com
e.doxtator at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 11:23:49 EDT 2012
On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 5:02:31 PM UTC-5, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> On 09/11/2012 01:53 PM, me wrote:
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> > On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 2:06:45 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote:
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> >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM, I wrote:
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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.
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> > Thank you!
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> > PEP 8 says this is bad form. What do you think?
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> Where does it say that?
Apologies. It's in David Goodger's "Code Like A Pythonista" in the "Naming" section. (http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html#naming)
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