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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 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 10:52:21 -0600
Subject Re: Single leading dash in member variable names?
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:23 AM, <e.doxtator@gmail.com> wrote:
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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:
> > > PEP 8 says this is bad form.  What do you think?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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)

That's arguing against double leading underscore, not single leading
underscore.  I pretty much agree with it; I rarely use the
name-mangling syntax myself.

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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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