On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Johannes Bauer <dfnsonfsdu...@gmx.de> wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm currently looking for a good solution to the following problem: I > have two classes A and B, which interact with each other and which > interact with the user. Instances of B are always created by A. > > Now I want A to call some private methods of B and vice versa (i.e. what > C++ "friends" are), but I want to make it hard for the user to call > these private methods. > > Currently my ugly approach is this: I delare the internal methods > private (hide from user). Then I have a function which gives me a > dictionary of callbacks to the private functions of the other objects. > This is in my opinion pretty ugly (but it works and does what I want). > > I'm pretty damn sure there's a nicer (prettier) solution out there, but > I can't currently think of it. Do you have any hints? > > Best regards, > Joe >
What do you mean "declare the internal methods private"? Python doesn't have this notion of restricted access. By convention, names starting with a leading underscore are private, but it's not enforced by the language. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
