Mizipzor wrote: > One thing is that in c++ im used to have private members in classes and > no member is altered except through the public functions of the class.
By convention, class members starting with a single underscore are considered private. This is much the same as the convention that on UNIX, files that start with a dot are considered hidden -- there is nothing actually *preventing* a programme from showing you these files in a directory listing, but by convention it won't, unless you explicitly ask to see them. Class members starting with a double underscore are "mangled" which makes it more difficult for other code (even subclasses!) to access the member. Difficult though -- not impossible. -- Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact Geek of ~ HTML/CSS/Javascript/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python*/Apache/Linux * = I'm getting there! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
