On 4/24/07, "Guido van Rossum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > But Python doesn't have protected, and isn't about to get it. >
We use methods names with one underscore as a convention for protected methods and I think we learned that from somebody else: class Eggs: def thePublicMethod(self): things = self._myProtected() return [ "thing_%s" % str(thing) for thing in things] def _myProtected(self): raise RuntimeError("missing base method") class RealEggs(AbstractEggs): def _myProtected(self): return ["one", "two"] -- Luis P Caamano Atlanta, GA USA _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com