Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you want the users of your code to know that an attribute should > not be used as a public API for the code, use the convention of > naming the attribute with a single leading underscore. This is a > string signal that the attribute is part of the implementation, not > the interface.
Quite apart from whether it's a string signal, I meant to write that it's a *strong* signal. -- \ "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, | `\ I'll use regular expressions'. Now they have two problems." | _o__) —Jamie Zawinski, in alt.religion.emacs | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list