Gregor Horvath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>Real open source live example from yesterdays mailinglists: > > I don't see any use of name mangling in that example. > > Someone has a problem and tweaks a private variable as a workaround.
They should have patched the source instead. > No python program will rely by definition on access to privat > variables, it just lets the door open, just for the case that the > program is not used in steril theoretical environment with a lot of > flipcharts but in real dirty live with bugs, version conflicts, > changing demands, ill spezifications, crazy public interfaces and so > on. Believe it or not, not all development environments are that disorganized. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list