Paul Rubin schrieb: > Thomas Ploch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Me neither, although I have to say that the '__' prefix comes pretty >> close to being 'private' already. It depends on the definition of >> private. For me, private means 'not accessible from outside the >> module/class'.
> > class A: > __x = 3 > > class B(A): > __x = 4 # ok > > class C(B): > __x = 5 # oops! > > Consider that the above three class definitions might be in separate > files and you see how clumsy this gets. I don't understand why this should be oops, even if they are in different files. >>> a = A() >>> print a._A__x 3 >>> b = B() >>> print b._B__x 4 >>> c = C() >>> print c._C__x 5 >>> dir(c) ['_A__x', '_B__x', '_C__x', '__doc__', '__module__'] >>> print c._A__x 3 >>> print c._B__x 4 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
