Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just how often do you inherit from two identically-named classes > both of which use identically-named private attributes?
I have no idea how often if ever. I inherit from library classes all the time, without trying to examine what superclasses they use. If my subclass happens to have the same name as a superclass of some library class (say Tkinter) this could happen. Whether it ever DOES happen, I don't know, I could only find out by examining the implementation details of every library class I ever use, and I could only prevent it by remembering those details. That is an abstraction leak and is dangerous and unnecessary. The name mangling scheme is a crock. How often does anyone ever have a good reason for using it, except maybe in something like a debugger that can just as easily reach inside the actual class descriptors and get all the variables out? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
