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Re: Single leading dash in member variable names?

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From Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date 2012-09-11 13:06 -0600
Subject Re: Single leading dash in member variable names?
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM,  <e.doxtator@gmail.com> wrote:
> All
>
> Python noob here.  Trying to understand a particular syntax:
>
> class stuff:
>     def __init__(self):
>          self._bongo = "BongoWorld"
>
> -----------
>
> 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.

Single leading underscore is a convention indicating that the name
should be considered private and not used externally.  It's a softer
version of the double leading underscore that means basically the same
thing but has syntactic significance.

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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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