No, they're private keys for the benefit of the implementation authors. Still, it's already the case that underscore prefixed names are sometimes used just for namespace separation (e.g. collections.namedtuple) -- Sent from my phone, thus the relative brevity :) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20120511/4ec2a468/attachment.html>