[Twisted-Python] What's the purpose of __?

[Jason Rennie]

In case you haven't seen it, here's what the python tutorial says about
double-underscore:

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/classes.html#private-variables

Jason

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Attila Nagy <bra at fsn.hu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to do an LMTP implementation based on smtp.py and came to the
> issue of class private variables with double underscores.
> Examples:
> http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted/mail/smtp.py#L746
> http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted/mail/smtp.py#L815
> and a lot of occurrences in this file.
>
> This makes me a problem, because I override some functions in a class,
> named LMTP, so these cannot work together.
>
> What's the rationale of using these, instead of static names?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
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