[libvirt] [PATCH 10/10] python: Mark event callback wrappers as private

Cole Robinson crobinso at redhat.com
Tue Jun 21 14:27:11 UTC 2011


On 06/20/2011 08:45 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 03:34:07PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> On 06/19/2011 09:45 PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 09:23:19PM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>>> These functions aren't intended to be called directly by users, so mark
>>>> them as private.
>>>
>>>   Hum, should that be one _ or two __ ?
>>> But ACK to cleanup !
>>>
>>
>> Python convention is anything starting with an underscore is considered
>> private. It only attempts to enforce this if using double underscore in the
>> name of a class method/attribute, which causes some auto name mangling.
>> However since these aren't class methods, double vs. single underscore isn't
>> any different.
> 
>   Okay, thanks for the explanations, I remembered we used __ a long time
> ago, and wasn't sure :-)
> 

Thanks, pushed V2 of this series (since all patches either didn't change
or the new versions were ACKd)

- Cole




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