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Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:55:29 +1000
Subject: Re: Why are these files names started with underscore?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 6:42 PM, gmspro <gmspro@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I see there are some files here started with underscore(_) , is there any
> convention of something for it?
>
> Is there any convention or something?

They're private implementations of public APIs. You can ignore them as
implementation details.

For using Python, I strongly recommend reading the docs, not the
source. Among other things, that'll help you avoid the trap of writing
to a CPython implementation detail.

ChrisA