On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 06:29:09 -0400 Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> wrote: > On 03/14/2011 02:33 AM, Greg Ewing wrote: > > Tim Lesher wrote: > > > >> Because named tuple prefixes a single underscore to its added method > >> names (_asdict, _replace, and _make), those methods' docstrings are > >> omitted from pydoc: > > > > IMO these should be called __asdict__, __replace__ and > > __make__. Users are perfectly entitled to make up their > > own single-underscore names, so using a single underscore > > is not sufficient to prevent name collisions. > > namedtuple won't let you use names starting with an underscore, so the > single underscore names are sufficient.
Not for members perhaps, but nothing prevents you from defining methods with these names in a subclass AFAIK. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
