[Python-Dev] PEP 8 and optional underscores (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Fri Jun 13 18:40:16 CEST 2008


Nick> def getName(self): _Nick> assert self.initialized, "Thread.init() not called" _Nick> return self.name

Why is __name private to begin with? Any reason for the getters and setters? Why isn't this just an attribute?

Raymond



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