Sorry... pressed enter but really didn't want to. As I said, let's say I have a class
class A: def __init__(self): self.x = None Python makes the decision to allow the developers to directly access the attribute "x", so that they can directly write: "a.x = 1", or whatever; this has for me the unfortunate side effect that if I write, for example "a.y = 1", when I really wanted to write "a.x = 1" no one cares about it, and I'm unable to spot this error until later. Of course, I know that while I'm fresh, I've a good knowledge of the code, and anything else, I will be able to avoid such stupid errors; however, I'm afraid of the times when I'm tired, when I have to put my hands on the code of someone else, and so on. Please, understand that I'm not stating that python is wrong... after all, if it is wrong, I can move to a language like Java, which has a different approach on it. I'm really very interested in reading past discussion on it, if they are available. Regards Marco On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:57 PM, Marco Bizzarri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's say I've a class a, where I can write: > > > > -- > Marco Bizzarri > http://notenotturne.blogspot.com/ > http://iliveinpisa.blogspot.com/ > -- Marco Bizzarri http://notenotturne.blogspot.com/ http://iliveinpisa.blogspot.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list