[Python-Dev] Tweaking PEP 8 guidelines for use of leading underscores (original) (raw)

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Wed Jul 17 18:20:34 CEST 2013

On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:46:34 -0400, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:

On 7/16/2013 9:39 AM, R. David Murray wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:19:21 +1000, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

>> For example, pkgutil includes classes with single-underscore methods, which I take as private. It also has a function simplegeneric, which is undocumented and not listed in all. In in the absence of even a comment saying "Don't use this", I take it as an oversight, not policy that simplegeneric is private. > > I think you'd be wrong about that, though. simplegeneric should really be > treated as private. I'm speaking here not about the general principle of > the thing, but about my understanding of simplegeneric's specific history. I think Steven (valid) point is "Why not, then, say it is internal either in docs or name?"-- which in this case would be in the docs.

I don't think that's what he was saying; but yes, we should do that :)

--David

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