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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2018-10-20 00:43:35 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2018-10-20 00:43:35 (GMT) |
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bpo-21196: Clarify name mangling rules in tutorial (GH-5667)
Initial patch by Chandan Kumar.
(cherry picked from commit 13ae4d44381a647aadd09b70b24833052659be41)
Co-authored-by: Berker Peksag <berker.peksag@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst index f26838c..487d535 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst @@ -703,6 +703,11 @@ 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. |