[Python-Dev] __mangled in stdlib considered poor form (original) (raw)

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Mon Aug 30 01:37:40 CEST 2004

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 14:50, Guido van Rossum wrote:

There's one potential use case where I'd like to keep the private name even if there's a mangled use of it nearby: when the private name really is intended to be private, and the mangled use is a "friend" in the C++ sense. Sometimes (though rarely) the stdlib has to indulge in practices that aren't good example code, because it's the stdlib, and it should implement functionality in the most bulletproof way possible. Using private names for internal details is the right thing sometimes.

Please don't just mindlessly change all leading double underscores to singles. +1, when following Guido's guidelines above though.

-Barry

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