On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:54:31 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote: > Russ P. a écrit : > (snip) >> In any case, I have suggested that Python should perhaps get a new >> keyword, "private" or "priv". > > And quite a few people - most of them using Python daily - answered they > didn't wan't it.
Then they don't have to use it. Lots of people think that double-underscore name mangling is a waste of time: not strict enough to be useful, not open enough to be Pythonic. Solution? Don't use double-underscore names. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list