On 13/01/2021 15:37, songbird wrote: > my momentary conceptual problem is that to me OOP means > being able to encapsulate data structures and code from > other parts of the program,
That's true, but encapsulation simply means that the data and functions are contained within a single entity - ie a capsule. It says nothing about whether you can access them directly or not. When OOP started the basic concept of having functions inside the same structure as the data that they operated on was so radical that encapsulation became a big topic. But over time it has gotten mixed up with data hiding and abstraction (also big topics back in the 70/80s) So the term encapsulation has tended to be used to cover abstraction and data hiding as well as simple(pure) encapsulation. > that is how python is designed. this is probably a complete > aside to this whole thread and perhaps even this newsgroup It is a long running(as in for decades!) sub-thread to the whole Python language. :-) -- Alan G Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.alan-g.me.uk/ http://www.amazon.com/author/alan_gauld Follow my photo-blog on Flickr at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alangauldphotos -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
