"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
The only way to make instance variables really private is to put them in a separate process and use IPC to reach the accessors. The __xyz convention results in deterministic name mangling that other parts of the program can undo if they wish to. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
