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Mon Mar 14 11:29:09 CET 2011 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-March/109245.html

On 03/14/2011 02:33 AM, Greg Ewing wrote:
> Tim Lesher wrote:
>
>> Because named tuple prefixes a single underscore to its added method
>> names (_asdict, _replace, and _make), those methods' docstrings are
>> omitted from pydoc:
>
> IMO these should be called __asdict__, __replace__ and
> __make__. Users are perfectly entitled to make up their
> own single-underscore names, so using a single underscore
> is not sufficient to prevent name collisions.

namedtuple won't let you use names starting with an underscore, so the 
single underscore names are sufficient.

Eric.

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