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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 17:25:03 -0700
Subject: Re: pylint, was Re: pygame - importing GL - very bad...
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On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
> If pylint says that global variables should be named like "__variable__",
> that is explicitly going against PEP 8.

It doesn't say that anywhere.  It includes dunder names in the regex
so that you don't get spurious warnings from pylint about the
formatting of names like __all__, nothing more.