Paul Rubin wrote: > > Right, the problem is if those methods start changing the "private" > variable. I should have been more explicit about that. > > class A: > def __init__(self): > self.__x = 3 > def foo(self): > return self.__x > > class B(A): pass > > class A(B): > def bar(self): > self.__x = 5 # clobbers private variable of earlier class named A
Has this ever been reported as a bug in Python? I could imagine more sophisticated "name mangling": something to do with the identity of the class might be sufficient, although that would make the tolerated "subversive" access to private attributes rather difficult. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
