On Mon, Aug 19, 2013, at 3:05, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > In this toy example, both parties are at fault: the author of Parrot for > unnecessary data-hiding of something which is so obviously a useful piece > of information and should be part of the public interface,
It may wish to be notified when its name changes, and so have a name property. The subclass may want to use a variable called _name for some other purpose. (maybe "name" isn't the best example). Examples often look pathological when you simplify out the bit that makes them make sense. -- Random832 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
