[Tutor] special attributes naming confusion

[Prasad, Ramit]

> My question is how was I supposed to kinow that the function I call using the
> name iter() is implemented using the name __iter__()?
> 
> Is there a rule that describes when I would implement an attribute name with
> leading and trailing double underscores, and then call it without those
> underscores? How many names like this exist in Python? Are these special cases
> or is there a general rule that leading and trailing double underscores get
> dropped when calling functions that were implemented with these names? I'm
> trying to understand the big picture as far as how Python works when it comes
> to this situation. Thanks.

They are listed here http://docs.python.org/reference/datamodel.html#specialnames 

Ramit


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