I am new to Python, with experience in Java, C++ and R. As I understand encapsulation is not a big thing in the Python world. I read that you can put two underscores before the name of a variable within a class declaration but in the many examples of code I looked at this is not widely used. I also read that encapsulation is "unpythonic."
Questions: 1) Is there a good text where I can read about the language philosophy? What practices are "pythonic" or "unpythonic"? 2) If it is in fact true that encapsulation is rarely used, how do I deal with the fact that other programmers can easily alter the values of members of my classes? Thanks for any insights. FS -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
