I thought that in the following code, __var would be mangled, but it
wasn't. Why not?
>>> class myclass:
def __init__(self):
self.__var1 = 'hello'
>>> instance = myclass()
>>> dir(instance)
['__doc__', '__init__', '__module__', '_myclass__var1']
>>> instance.__var2 = 'hi'
>>> dir(instance)
['__doc__', '__init__', '__module__', '__var2', '_myclass__var1']
>>>
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