Recent snippets posted on Snipplr.com https://snipplr.com/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:51:42 +0000 https://snipplr.com/view/7027/name-mangling-of-python-private-variables <p>Python: Private Variables http://docs.python.org/tut/node11.html#SECTION0011600000000000000000 Any identifier of the form __spam (at least two leading underscores, at most one trailing underscore) is textually replaced with _classname__spam, where classname is the current class name with leading underscore(s) stripped. Truncation may occur when the mangled name would be longer than 255 characters. When the class name consists of only underscores, no mangling occurs.</p> Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:08:15 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/7027/name-mangling-of-python-private-variables https://snipplr.com/view/6254/iterates-over-the-bytes-of-string <p></p> Thu, 15 May 2008 23:41:29 UTC https://snipplr.com/view/6254/iterates-over-the-bytes-of-string