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[Mekire]

Have I used double underscores?

No you didn't.

Names like this __something__ are called dunder methods. You shouldn't be creating your own brand new dunder methods but you will need to use them and define their function bodies like __init__ and such.

This isn't what I was talking about though. I was referring to names like this __something. This triggers what is called name mangling. Name mangling does just that; screws up the variable name in a predictable (but extremely annoying) way. Every time I need to deal with a name mangled variable I have to look up how it gets mangled but there is nothing stopping me from accessing it. The main purpose is to avoid potential collisions not enforce privacy.
https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/class...references


Single leading underscore variables are used to "mark" variables as private but this is purely documentation. A leading underscore tells another python programmer that they really shouldn't access that variable directly and if they do stuff might break. Also for completeness if you were to star import a file (which you should almost never do), names that started with a single underscore would not be imported.