On Sun, May 23, 2021 at 10:30 PM Marco Sulla <marco.sulla.pyt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think the only reason to introduce something like `private` is > refactoring. If you added a `_variable` and later you decided to > expose it, you have to change it to `variable`. This is something that > in languages like Java is not necessary, you have only to change the > variable from private to public. This sometimes bothered me in Python.
Since you started with it private, you should be able to solve this with a simple search-and-replace within the class's own definition. Nothing outside the class should be affected. If it's that hard to replace "self._variable" with "self.variable", then you can always create a property to make it available under both names. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/L33KIIKBY4ZT7CVJXLGHXMXDCAM7ZQWH/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
