R. David Murray added the comment: This is working as designed (https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html#private-variables):
"This mangling is done without regard to the syntactic position of the identifier, as long as it occurs within the definition of a class." If you want to advocate changing that you'll have to start a thread on python-ideas, but I don't think the benefit would be worth the cost. ---------- nosy: +r.david.murray resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue27793> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com