Commit b0f7fa1d authored by Miss Islington (bot)'s avatar Miss Islington (bot) Committed by GitHub

bpo-21196: Clarify name mangling rules in tutorial (GH-5667)


Initial patch by Chandan Kumar.
(cherry picked from commit 13ae4d44)
Co-authored-by: default avatarBerker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com>
parent 2546ac8e
......@@ -651,6 +651,11 @@ breaking intraclass method calls. For example::
for item in zip(keys, values):
self.items_list.append(item)
The above example would work even if ``MappingSubclass`` were to introduce a
``__update`` identifier since it is replaced with ``_Mapping__update`` in the
``Mapping`` class and ``_MappingSubclass__update`` in the ``MappingSubclass``
class respectively.
Note that the mangling rules are designed mostly to avoid accidents; it still is
possible to access or modify a variable that is considered private. This can
even be useful in special circumstances, such as in the debugger.
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