bpo-21196: Clarify name mangling rules in tutorial (GH-5667)

Initial patch by Chandan Kumar.

diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
index 83b7db7c7cffc1e7702ba7e47ef4756f07b6968d..7d3b823a14e035c0bdd9f489db9d9b19cd278cfa 100644 (file)
--- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
@@ -703,6 +703,11 @@ breaking intraclass method calls.  For example::
            for item in zip(keys, values):
                self.items_list.append(item)
 
+The above example would work even if ``MappingSubclass`` were to introduce a
+``__update`` identifier since it is replaced with ``_Mapping__update`` in the
+``Mapping`` class  and ``_MappingSubclass__update`` in the ``MappingSubclass``
+class respectively.
+
 Note that the mangling rules are designed mostly to avoid accidents; it still is
 possible to access or modify a variable that is considered private.  This can
 even be useful in special circumstances, such as in the debugger.