On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 11:10 +1000, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am aware the private variables are generally done via convention
> (leading underscore), but I came across a technique in Douglas
> Crockford's book "Javascript: The Good Parts" for creating private
> variables in Javascript, and I'd thought I'd see how it translated to
> Python. Here is my attempt.
>
> def get_config(_cache=[]):
> private = {}
> private['a'] = 1
> private['b'] = 2
> if not _cache:
> class Config(object):
> @property
> def a(self):
> return private['a']
> @property
> def b(self):
> return private['b']
> config = Config()
> _cache.append(config)
> else:
> config = _cache[0]
> return config
>
> >>> c = get_config()
> >>> c.a
> 1
> >>> c.b
> 2
> >>> c.a = 10
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<string>", line 1, in <fragment>
> AttributeError: can't set attribute
> >>> dir(c)
> ['__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__doc__', '__format__',
> '__getattribute__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__module__', '__new__',
> '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__',
> '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', 'a', 'b']
> >>> d = get_config()
> >>> d is c
> True
>
> I'm not really asking 'is it a good idea' but just 'does this work'?
> It seems to work to me, and is certainly 'good enough' in the sense
> that it should be impossible to accidentally change the variables of
> c.
>
> But is it possible to change the value of c.a or c.b with standard
> python, without resorting to ctypes level manipulation?
It's not easy, but it can be done by introspecting the property object
you created and munging the closed-over dictionary object:
>>> c = get_config()
>>> c.a
1
>>> c.__class__.__dict__['a'].fget.func_closure[0].cell_contents['a'] = 7
>>> c.a
7
>>>
Cheers,
Ryan
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