On 2006-04-11, Michele Simionato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roy Smith wrote: ><snip> >> That being said, you can indeed have private data in Python. Just prefix >> your variable names with two underscores (i.e. __foo), and they effectively >> become private. Yes, you can bypass this if you really want to, but then >> again, you can bypass private in C++ too.
> Wrong, _foo is a *private* name (in the sense "don't touch me!"), __foo > on the contrary is a *protected* name ("touch me, touch me, don't worry > I am protected against inheritance!"). > This is a common misconception, I made the error myself in the past. Please explain! I didn't think _foo meant anything special, __foo expands to _classname__foo for some sort of name-hiding. What am I missing? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list