[Tutor] Single Underscore

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Kevin Reeder wrote:

>What's the significance of naming a variable with a single
>underscore as its first character? For example, I'm looking at
>find.py in the standard library and it has variables named _debug
>and _prune.
>
>Kevin 
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Kevin,

If it is naming conventions then possibly they mean a private property 
or method.
http://jaynes.colorado.edu/PythonGuidelines.html

Lee C