docs: document that stubtest ignores private stub names#21735
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Add a section to the stubtest documentation explaining that names beginning with a leading underscore are treated as private to the stub and will not be flagged if missing at runtime. Fixes python#15414
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Fixes #15414
Adds a section to the stubtest documentation explaining that names beginning with a leading underscore are treated as private to the stub. This documents the existing behaviour used by typeshed, so users know they can use names like "_T" for TypeVars that don't exist at runtime.