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Erik Max Francis  
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 More options Sep 11 2012, 6:02 pm
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From: Erik Max Francis <m...@alcyone.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 15:02:31 -0700
Local: Tues, Sep 11 2012 6:02 pm
Subject: Re: Single leading dash in member variable names?
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On 09/11/2012 01:53 PM, e.doxta...@gmail.com wrote:

> On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 2:06:45 PM UTC-5, Ian wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:45 PM,  I wrote:
>>> 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.

> Thank you!

> PEP 8 says this is bad form.  What do you think?

Where does it say that?

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