Alexander Belopolsky <belopol...@users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:
> R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: > > If they abuse the _ methods and complain that the C version doesn't > work, we just say "we *told* you not to do that". It is not the Python > philosophy to try to protect users from mistakes that they willfully > make. Let me think some more about this. Given double underscores in special methods, changing this is not a simple s/__/_/ throughout the file. I am not sure _ clearly signals "don't use in subclasses": that's what __ is for. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7989> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
