Hi everybody,
I'm having a naming/scoping/mangling issue. I have a class like this:
class MyClass(object):
__init__(self):
self.__myAttribute = None
def myMethod(self, aValue):
attributeName = "__myAttribute"
setattr(self, attributeName, aValue)
It all looks good to me but when I use a debugger I find that
- myClass._MyClass__myAttribute = None
and
- myClass.__myAttribute = aValue
I can't quite understand why. I was expecting to have the first
defined and having a value while I wasn't expecting to see the second
at all. And of course this is a problem because other methods are
trying to read the first variable and find it containing a None
object.
Admittedly, as I'm unit-testing the method I'm using the following
syntax to execute it directly from a test method:
myClass._MyClass__myMethod(aValue)
I guess this is not the "normal" way to do it as it would normally be
called from inside the object, like this:
self.__myMethod(aValue)
Is this what's causing the problem?
Thanks for your help.
Manu
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