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Tue Dec 13 01:23:07 CET 2005 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-December/058639.html

Neal Norwitz wrote:

> I recently asked Guido about name mangling wrt Py3k.  He definitely
> wanted to keep it in.  Unless he changed his mind, I doubt he would
> deprecate it.  His rationale was that there needs to be a way to
> handle name collision with multiple inheritance.

Then maybe it should be beefed up to include the
module name somehow, so that it works reliably
(or at least more reliably than now).

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