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Re: Single leading dash in member variable names?

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On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 5:02:31 PM UTC-5, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> On 09/11/2012 01:53 PM, me wrote:
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> > On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 2:06:45 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote:
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> >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM,  I wrote:
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> >>> What is the significance of the leading underscore in "self._bongo"?  I've seen this a few times and, after looking through PEP 8, I didn't see anything relevant, but I could have missed it.
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> >>
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> >> Single leading underscore is a convention indicating that the name
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> >> should be considered private and not used externally.  It's a softer
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> >> version of the double leading underscore that means basically the same
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> >> thing but has syntactic significance.
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> >
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> > Thank you!
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> >
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> > PEP 8 says this is bad form.  What do you think?
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> Where does it say that?

Apologies.  It's in David Goodger's "Code Like A Pythonista" in the "Naming" section. (http://python.net/~goodger/projects/pycon/2007/idiomatic/handout.html#naming)

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Single leading dash in member variable names? e.doxtator@gmail.com - 2012-09-11 11:45 -0700
  Re: Single leading dash in member variable names? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-09-11 13:06 -0600
    Re: Single leading dash in member variable names? e.doxtator@gmail.com - 2012-09-11 13:53 -0700
      Re: Single leading dash in member variable names? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-09-11 17:34 -0400
    Re: Single leading dash in member variable names? e.doxtator@gmail.com - 2012-09-11 13:53 -0700
      Re: Single leading dash in member variable names? Erik Max Francis <max@alcyone.com> - 2012-09-11 15:02 -0700
        Re: Single leading dash in member variable names? Tim Chase <python.list@tim.thechases.com> - 2012-09-12 05:49 -0500
        Re: Single leading dash in member variable names? e.doxtator@gmail.com - 2012-09-12 08:23 -0700
          Re: Single leading dash in member variable names? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-09-12 10:52 -0600
          Re: Single leading dash in member variable names? mdengler@gmail.com - 2012-09-12 09:53 -0700
        Re: Single leading dash in member variable names? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2012-09-12 09:23 -0600
    Re: Single leading dash in member variable names? aahz@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) - 2012-11-10 07:41 -0800

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