m.faassen@[...].nl (Martijn Faassen) writes:
>  > Personally, I prefer the effect of double underscore for this case, as 
>  > well. I can easily get to the variables by applying the name mangling 
>  > myself, yet cannot accidentally stomp on the variables in a subclass.
>  
>  > To each his/her own.
>  
>  That's a good point. I haven't done this because I've never remembered
>  the name mangling rule. I'm not even sure if it's really part of the
>  Python standard, but I'd guess it should be.

Depending on the name mangling scheme staying the same between python
version updates sounds like asking for trouble.
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