On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Russ P. <russ.paie...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 20, 10:24 pm, alex23 <wuwe...@gmail.com> wrote: >> This is pretty much what I had in mind when I said before that I >> believed such concerns could be addressed externally of the >> interpreter. Thankfully I thought to check Activestate before knocking >> up my own as proof-of-concept :) >> >> With Python 2.6/3.0 Carl's code could be easily (almost said >> 'trivially'...) extended to support the new __dir__ special method to >> exclude anything marked as private from the dir() results. > > Looks interesting. If it can somehow be integrated into the language > as full-fledged feature, then I'd say it has potential. As I said > before, I am not looking for a hack or a quick fix. I am interested in > well-engineered data hiding that is fully supported as part of the > language. But I certainly appreciate Mr. Banks effort whether it ever > reaches that level or not.
Then -don't- use python. Use some other boring language. (!...@#$!@#) --JamesMills -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
