Thomas Ploch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Me neither, although I have to say that the '__' prefix comes pretty > close to being 'private' already. It depends on the definition of > private. For me, private means 'not accessible from outside the > module/class'.
class A: __x = 3 class B(A): __x = 4 # ok class C(B): __x = 5 # oops! Consider that the above three class definitions might be in separate files and you see how clumsy this gets. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list