Re: [Webware-discuss] Example of singleton for site?

[Tim R. <ti...@pr...>]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 12:45:35 -0700 (PDT), Ian Maurer wrote:
>
>--- Tim Roberts <ti...@pr...> wrote:
>> Ian Maurer <ian...@ya...> wrote:
>> >class Waldo:
>> >    __shared_state = {                           #
>> >shared state: all instances share the same data
>> >                        'dbPool':             None,
>> >...
>> 
>> As a stylistic note: you should not generally use
>> double underscores as a lead-
>> in for your own variable names.  Those are reserved
>> for Python itself.
>> 
>
>I always thought double underscores was a method for
>making attributes and methods 'private' (actually
>'mangled' would be the right word since there isn't
>the 'security' that C++ provides).
>
>Can someone confirm either theory for us?

*One* underscore marks an attribute or method as private.  Double underscored 
names are reserved for Python.


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