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gh-120452: improve documentation about private name mangling (#120451)

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@ -688,6 +688,11 @@ current class name with leading underscore(s) stripped. This mangling is done
without regard to the syntactic position of the identifier, as long as it
occurs within the definition of a class.
.. seealso::
The :ref:`private name mangling specifications <private-name-mangling>`
for details and special cases.
Name mangling is helpful for letting subclasses override methods without
breaking intraclass method calls. For example::