python: what's with the underscores?

  • From: "Alex Hall" <mehgcap@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Blind Programming List" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 15:57:55 -0500

In python, why are some method names surrounded by two underscores? Even some filenames have these two underscores, though I imagine that is more of a convention than anything else. What do the underscores mean, if anything? 



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