Robert wrote:
> When I read a sample file from hmm learn package, which is on top of > scikit-learn package, I see there are many member functions (prefix with > '_') have no caller. That is, I don't see anything uses those functions. > Below is a sample part from class GMMHMM(_BaseHMM): I bet the caller is in the superclass _BaseHMM, like in the following made- up example: >>> class Base: ... def __init__(self, x): ... self._init(x) ... def _init(self, x): print("do something with", x) ... >>> class Derived(Base): ... def _init(self, x): ... super()._init(x) ... print("do something else with", x) ... >>> Derived(42) do something with 42 do something else with 42 <__main__.Derived object at 0x7f8e6b3e9b70> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list