Roy Smith wrote: > Quick answer; there are none, all attributes are public. > > Slightly longer answer; if you name an attribute with two leading > underscores (i.e. "__myPrivateData"), there is some name mangling that goes > on which effectively makes the attribute private. There are ways around > it, but you have to know what you're doing and deliberately be trying to > spoof the system (but, then again, exactly the same can be said for C++'s > private data).
Well yeah... if you really want it, in Java you can do that too via reflection. Just that I'm not used to it yet so I feel a bit jittery with so much power on my hands! > Soapbox answer; private data is, in some ways, a useful tool, but it is not > part and parcel of object oriented programming. I've had people (mostly > C++/Java weenies) that Python is not an OOPL because it does not enforce > data hiding. "Feh", I say to them. Feh... those weenies don't know what they're talkin about. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
