Chris Gonnerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > -- Make it easy to do right. > > What you are promoting is the first philosophy: Tie the programmer's > hands so he can't do wrong. Python for the most part follows the > second philosophy, making writing good code so easy that the coder > is rarely tempted to commit any evil.
Unless you can show that all Python code is bug-free, you've got to consider that there might be something to this private and protected stuff. See for example this message: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.crypt/msg/59516419dc874e63?dmode=source Name mangling is a poor substitute for private variables. If you want to be able to share private variables with other classes under certain circumstances, it's better to use something like C++'s "friend" declaration, where you can export the variables to a specific other class. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
