On Jul 14, 2013, at 06:11 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>Private interfaces
PEP 8 does say:
_single_leading_underscore: weak "internal use" indicator. E.g. from M
import * does not import objects whose name starts with an underscore.
I'm in favor of making this a stronger recommendation, but I have a small
semantic quibble. Instead of "private interface" it should be "non-public
interface". The two aren't quite the same thing; for example, often
single-leading underscores are used for methods that subclasses are supposed
to override, e.g. akin to "protected" in C++.
Besides, Python doesn't really have any strong notion of privateness, so
saying "non-public" means "just because you can, doesn't mean you should".
-Barry
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