On 12/12/05, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but that's not the same at all. The point of __private is that it uses > the *static* scope of the code that contains the reference, not the > (dynamic) type of the object being referenced. With your approach, if > class A defined __private, *anyone* could use A().__private (but not > B().__private where B is a subclass of A). The intention is for > __private to have the right meaning only within the source code for > class A, but it should work even if type(self) is a subclass of A. (Or > even if it's unrelated to A, but that's a separate and weaker use > case.)
Err.. you are of course right. My intent, however, was to use the static scope of the code, so let me redo my examples: class ObjClass(object): def foo(self): return self.__private becomes class ObjClass(object): def foo(self): return object.__getattribute__(self, '__dict__')[(ObjClass, '__private')] Hopefully that example does not get bogged down in poor pseudocode. -- Adam Olsen, aka Rhamphoryncus _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com