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Author rhettinger
Recipients Leeland Morgan, rhettinger, xtreak
Date 2018-07-24.15:44:24
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Name mangling is intended to create class local references (that is why the class name is prepended) and can be used to add a layer of privacy to calls *within* a class.   It is not intended to do what you're trying to do outside of class definitions.
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