On Thursday 22 January 2009 08:32:51 am Steven D'Aprano wrote: > And now I have accidentally broken the spam() method, due to a name clash.
True, that's bad. I wish that were 'fixed'. > Besides, double-underscore names are a PITA to work with: Isn't that example the point of having self.__private variables? To make sure that the Parrot.__private attributes don't clash with the RedParrot.__private attributes with the same name? [parrot example follows just for context, but my reply ends here] > >>> class Parrot(object): > > ... __colour = 'blue' > ... def __str__(self): > ... return 'A %s parrot' % self.__colour > ... __repr__ = __str__ > ... > > >>> class RedParrot(Parrot): # Just like Parrot, only red. > > ... __colour = 'red' > ... > > >>> Parrot() > > A blue parrot > > >>> RedParrot() > > A blue parrot -- Luis Zarrabeitia (aka Kyrie) Fac. de Matemática y Computación, UH. http://profesores.matcom.uh.cu/~kyrie -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
