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| author | Bénédikt Tran <10796600+picnixz@users.noreply.github.com> | 2024-07-13 14:45:18 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2024-07-13 14:45:18 (GMT) |
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gh-120452: improve documentation about private name mangling (#120451)
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst index 1b64741..675faa8 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst @@ -688,6 +688,11 @@ current class name with leading underscore(s) stripped. This mangling is done without regard to the syntactic position of the identifier, as long as it occurs within the definition of a class. +.. seealso:: + + The :ref:`private name mangling specifications <private-name-mangling>` + for details and special cases. + Name mangling is helpful for letting subclasses override methods without breaking intraclass method calls. For example:: |