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

Benjamin Peterson musiccomposition at gmail.com
Fri Jun 13 18:42:12 CEST 2008

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

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?

In 3.x, it's just an attribute.

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