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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 01:29:17PM +0200, Pearu Peterson wrote:
> Anders Logg wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 12:27:45PM +0200, Martin Sandve Alnæs wrote:
> >> In Python, variables are made private or protected in an "informal
> >> way" by prefixing their names with __ or _. Some places I've used
> >> self._foo instead of self.foo for variables which the end-user (person
> >> inputting a form) shouldn't touch, do you agree with this? Most of
> >> these are variables the form compiler developers will be dealing with.
> >> I haven't been completely consistent, so I just want green light
> >> before I change these one way or the other.
> > 
> > Agree, but shouldn't it be two underscores?
> 
> Two underscores are reserved for Python private names and there
> is some magic effects with class attributes that have two underscores
> as prefix (this is actually the way to get some protection to attribute 
> values). Authors of Python packages should use one underscore for 
> private names, in general.
> 
> Pearu

ok!

-- 
Anders