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Author	barry
Recipients	John Hagen, barry, eli.bendersky, ethan.furman
Date	2016-07-09.16:04:42
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Message-id	<20160709120439.6ec2b653@subdivisions.wooz.org>
In-reply-to	<1468077616.66.0.686812215441.issue26988@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>

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On Jul 09, 2016, at 03:20 PM, Ethan Furman wrote: >As far as I can tell there is only one "good" way around this: > >- store any names you don't want auto-numbered into an `_ignore_` > attribute (this only needs to be global and built-in names that > are used before the first method is defined) Seems reasonable, though why not a dunder, e.g. __ignore__? > _ignore_ = 'Period i' Why space separated names inside a string instead of a sequence of strings?

On Jul 09, 2016, at 03:20 PM, Ethan Furman wrote:

>As far as I can tell there is only one "good" way around this:
>
>- store any names you don't want auto-numbered into an `_ignore_`
>  attribute (this only needs to be global and built-in names that
>  are used before the first method is defined)

Seems reasonable, though why not a dunder, e.g. __ignore__?

>    _ignore_ = 'Period i'

Why space separated names inside a string instead of a sequence of strings?

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