S. D. Rose wrote: > I can't get the value of the variable (out of the class function) if it has > two leading underscores.
Sure you can if you want it hard enough; it's just mangled. >>> class C: __x = 1 ... >>> dir(C) ['_C__x', '__doc__', '__module__'] >>> c = C() >>> dir(c) ['_C__x', '__doc__', '__module__'] >>> c._C__x 1 -- Erik Max Francis && [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.alcyone.com/max/ San Jose, CA, USA && 37 20 N 121 53 W && AIM erikmaxfrancis What is now prov'd was once only imagin'd. -- William Blake -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
