On Friday, 17 June 2022 at 14:14:57 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad
wrote:
On Friday, 17 June 2022 at 13:58:15 UTC, Soham Mukherjee wrote:
Is there any better way to achieve encapsulation in Python?
Please rectify my code if possible.
One convention is to use "self._fieldname" for protected and
"self.__fieldname" for private class attributes.
Example:
```python
class A:
def __init__(self):
self._x = 3
self.__x = 4
a = A()
print(a.__dict__)
```
will produce the output: ```{'_x': 3, '_A__x': 4}``` .
As you can see the "self.__x" field has the name "_A__x" which
makes it "hidden", but not inaccessible.
But you can use external tools to check for misuse.
