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Python FTW: Under the Hood

Let's Mangle

Explore Python's name mangling mechanism to understand how the interpreter modifies class member names with double underscores to prevent naming collisions across namespaces. Learn why some mangled names behave unexpectedly and how this impacts variable access and scope management in Python classes.

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Typically, we would discourage it, but for now, let’s mangle.

1.

Why does the following code throw an error?
Python 3.5
class Yo(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.__honey = True
        self.bro = True
print(Yo().bro)
print(Yo()._Yo__honey)
print(Yo().__honey) # Throws error

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