On May 24, 6:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Ben Finney: > > >In Python, the philosophy "we're all consenting adults here" applies.< > > Michael Foord: > > > They will use whatever they find, whether it is the best way to > > achieve a goal or not. Once they start using it they will expect us to > > maintain it - and us telling them it wasn't intended to be used by > > them in the first place won't cut it. > > So they will use the methods with one or two underscores too. And > imply that you want to document them too. > They don't seem adult enough, then ;-)
Great! We'll just tell them that... Michael > Internal API hiding seems quite less useful if you don't need to let > customers manage your code. > > Bye, > bearophile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list