[Pyobjc-dev] Underscores in methods/instance variables

[Orestis M. <or...@or...>]

Hello all,

I want to clarify a bit the advice of the documentation to *not* use  
the Python conventions of not using leading underscores for "private"  
instance attributes.

Is it the danger of accidentally overwriting some other Obj-C  
attribute if there's a name clash? What about methods with leading  
underscores?

I fully understand that in order a method to be accessible from Obj-C  
code it has to follow the methodWithArg_andArg_(self, arg1, arg2)  
convention. In my case, these are "private" methods that I have no  
desire to expose to anyone.

The class in question is just a delegate that implements a custom init  
method and the delegate method. These are the only things that use the  
obj-c convention. The rest of the code is using the Python convention,  
with leading underscores in attributes and methosd, property  
decorators and so on.

Testing indicates that things are working perfectly fine, I'm just  
worried that there may some stability issues that may not visible at  
this point. I've heard rumours of hard crashes that may have been  
related to this, so I'm a bit worried.

Thanks,
Orestis
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