The problem is that I actually do need them to be private to the outside world... but not to subclasses. I guess what I actually need is something like "protected" in C++.... but I don't think I'm going to get that luxury.
I think what's happening in my example is that the name mangling is looking at the defining class instead of looking at "self"... which is not what I expected. Which means it is accessing two different variables (_subclass_something on the set and _baseclass__something on the get) Anyone know of a workaround for that?? (other than renaming the variable so it doesn't have the two underscores?) I guess I could just use one underscore.... but that means it is easier for other people to get at my implementation details (which, coming from a C++ background really bothers me). Friedmud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
