Issue 12086: add example showing how to use name mangling.
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@ -595,6 +595,28 @@ current class name with leading underscore(s) stripped. This mangling is done
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without regard to the syntactic position of the identifier, as long as it
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occurs within the definition of a class.
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Name mangling is helpful for letting subclasses override methods without
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breaking intraclass method calls. For example::
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class Mapping:
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def __init__(self, iterable):
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self.items_list = []
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self.__update(iterable)
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def update(self, iterable):
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for item in iterable:
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self.items_list.append(item)
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__update = update # private copy of original update() method
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class MappingSubclass(Mapping):
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def update(self, keys, values):
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# provides new signature for update()
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# but does not break __init__()
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for item in zip(keys, values):
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self.items_list.append(item)
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Note that the mangling rules are designed mostly to avoid accidents; it still is
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possible to access or modify a variable that is considered private. This can
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even be useful in special circumstances, such as in the debugger.
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