Roy Smith wrote:
(snip)
> That being said, you can indeed have private data in Python. Just prefix
> your variable names with two underscores (i.e. __foo), and they effectively
> become private.
The double-leading-underscore stuff has nothing to do with "privacy".
It's meant to protect from *accidental* overriding of implementation stuff.
(snip)
> Yes, that is is a risk. Most people deal with that risk by doing a lot of
> testing (which you should be doing anyway). If you really want to, you can
> use the __slots__ technique to prevent this particular bug from happening
> (although the purists will tell you that this is not what __slots__ was
> designed for).
Ok, so I must be a purist !-)
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