In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Wooding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> By enforcing your `data hiding', you're effectively telling me that I'm > too stupid to make rational decisions of this sort. And that's actually > extremely insulting. I think that's taking it a bit far. Python doesn't let you manipulate pointers directly. For example, I can't do: s = "foo" sp = address(s) sp[2] = 'x' print s and have it print "fox". Is this because I'm too stupid to make rational decision of this sort? No, it's because the Python programming model exposes some things and hides others which are deemed inappropriate or too low level. One of the things it hides is direct access to raw memory. I don't see that as fundamentally different from a C++ string class which declares its internal buffer to be private. If the goose's pot is black, then the gander's kettle is an equal shade of dark grey. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
