[Python-Dev] Deprecate __ private (was Re: PEP 8 updates/clarifications) (original) (raw)

Neal Norwitz nnorwitz at gmail.com
Mon Dec 12 02:52:36 CET 2005

On 12/11/05, Jim Fulton <jim at zope.com> wrote:

_Can we officially mark private as a mistake. Perhaps: - Strongly discourage it in the style guide

This may be acceptable.

- Mark it in the language reference as a deprecated feature

- Generate deprecation warnings when it is used? (This might be too much.)

I recently asked Guido about name mangling wrt Py3k. He definitely wanted to keep it in. Unless he changed his mind, I doubt he would deprecate it. His rationale was that there needs to be a way to handle name collision with multiple inheritance.

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