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I wonder when it became common, since I did some Python stuff many years ago and never encountered the term in that context.

On the other hand... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunder




According to Wikipedia, the term dates back to at least 2002:

> The frequent use of a double underscores in internal identifiers in Python gave rise to the abbreviation dunder; this was coined by Mark Jackson[3] and independently by Tim Hochberg,[4] within minutes of each other, both in reply to the same question in 2002.[5][6]




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