http://dustangroups.googlepages.com/privateattributesinpython
This is something that I just threw together this morning, after a eureka moment. It's a way of creating private class attributes and static function variables (I'm not 100% sure if that's the correct terminology, but you get what I mean). I haven't tried to create private instance attributes, mainly because it would just be too difficult, and it would be awful syntax. I'm not considering actually using this, but I do have a couple questions about it. 1. Has anyone else ever come up with something like this? I can't imagine I'm the only person who's ever thought of this. 2. Is it possible to hack into something like this? ie, would it be possible to see and change these variables from client code (assuming the data manager has been properly removed from sight, as shown on the last line of class block TestPrivateClassAttributes)? To avoid utter confusion, you may want to look at TestPrivateClassAttributes before looking at the actual implementation of PrivateDataEngine. If you're still confused, feel free to ask what's going on here (and I'm open to suggestions on how to make it clearer). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
