John Salerno wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> John Salerno wrote: >>> What I originally meant was that they would not be called from an >>> instance *outside* the class itself, i.e. they won't be used when >>> writing another script, they are only used by the class itself. >> >> Yep, so you want to encapsulate the functionality that those methods >> provide, which is the whole point of building them in a class in the >> first place. And you want them to be private to the class so that they >> do not form part of the classes public/external interface. > > But it's right that they should still be regular instance methods? So > from within the class I still call them as self._generate_head(), etc.?
I tried the underscore method, but I was still able to call it as a regular instance method in the interpreter. Is that what's supposed to happen? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
