People often ask for making attributes "private" in the sense of restricting access as in Java or C++. I've created a recipe for attribute protection where all attributes are basically protected in the C++ sense of being visible in the class and in subclasses and where "public" attributes have to be declared explicitely:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/496920 Regards, Kay -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
