What use of these _ prefix members?
Steven D'Aprano
steve at pearwood.info
Sun Jan 10 13:03:26 EST 2016
On Mon, 11 Jan 2016 04:55 am, Robert wrote:
> Some online tutorials tell me '_' prefix is a kind of convention of
> private members.
Correct. Not just private members, but private *anything*.
Any time you see anything starting with a single underscore, whether it is a
module, class, method, attribute or variable, you can assume that it is
private (unless explicitly documented otherwise) and avoid it.
--
Steven
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