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r74412 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-13 14:58:30 +0200 (Do, 13 Aug 2009) | 9 lines
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r74411 | georg.brandl | 2009-08-13 14:57:25 +0200 (Do, 13 Aug 2009) | 2 lines
Remove potentially confusing sentence in __mangling description.
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
index bdc49c4..7ef4153 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/classes.rst
@@ -592,11 +592,8 @@
``__spam`` (at least two leading underscores, at most one trailing underscore)
is textually replaced with ``_classname__spam``, where ``classname`` is the
current class name with leading underscore(s) stripped. This mangling is done
-without regard to the syntactic position of the identifier, so it can be used to
-define class-private instance and class variables, methods, variables stored in
-globals, and even variables stored in instances. Truncation may occur when the
-mangled name would be longer than 255 characters. Outside classes, or when the
-class name consists of only underscores, no mangling occurs.
+without regard to the syntactic position of the identifier, as long as it
+occurs within the definition of a class.
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