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Author michael.foord
Recipients georg.brandl, michael.foord, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date 2011-01-07.19:13:02
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There was a discussion on python-dev about naming conventions in the  standard library. There was no clear consensus that everything non-public should start with an underscore. Several developers thought that merely being undocumented or not present in __all__ was sufficient (evidently including Guido at the point he implemented this).
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