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Re: Why are these files names started with underscore?

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  Re: Why are these files names started with underscore? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-06-24 18:55 +1000

#24384 — Re: Why are these files names started with underscore?

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

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