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On 26/09/2013 02:08, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:41:25 -0500, Tim Chase wrote about namedtuple:
>
>> While it uses the "private" member-variable "_fields", you can do
>
> It's not actually private!
>
> namedtuple is documented as an exception to the rule that methods
> starting with a single leading underscore are private. Named tuples
> define three public methods and one data attribute. In order to avoid
> clashing with field names, they start with a single underscore, but they
> are documented as public:
>
> _make
> _asdict
> _replace
> _fields
>
>
> http://docs.python.org/2/library/collections.html#namedtuple-factory-function-for-tuples-with-named-fields
>
Wouldn't it have made more sense to have a trailing underscore instead?