David Hopwood wrote:
> A restricted interpreter refuses access to any object attribute or method
> with a name beginning with '_' (by throwing a new exception type
> 'InternalAccessException'), unless the access is from a method and its
> static target is that method's first argument variable.
What's to stop
def my_naughty_method(self):
self = some_protected_object
self._a_special_attribute = some_naughty_value
> __init__ is an internal method. This is as it should be, because it should not
> be possible to call __init__ on an existing object; only to have __init__
> implicitly called when a new object is constructed.
What about calling an inherited __init__ method?
Your proposed rule would seem to disallow
BaseClass.__init__(self, ...)
--
Greg
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