[Python-Dev] Deprecate __ private (was Re: PEP 8updates/clarifications)

Tue Dec 13 17:26:33 CET 2005

Steven Bethard wrote:
> > Everybody here agrees that this style makes the code much less legible.
> > Partly because of the constant indirection. Also because it imposes
> > learning all those two-letter abbreviations before reading a module, and
> > the learning has to be redone on each visit, it just does not stick.
>> Much less legible than without the namespace? Or much less legible
> than with a non-abbreviated namespace.

using abbreviations just for the sake of it may be a bad idea, but using
it to able to quickly switch between different drivers works really well.
my code is full of stuff like:
 import sqlite2 as DB
 import wckTkinter as WCK
 # import cElementtree as ET
 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
but you sure won't see
 import sys as SY
 import os.path as op
or other gratuitous aliasing.
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