On Jun 5, 11:25 am, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 5, 2:07 pm, "Russ P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The "private" keyword goes further and prevents > > access even by derived classes. The double leading underscore in > > Python does no such thing. > > Who develops these derived classes ? A competitor ? A malicious > hacker ? A spammer ? Who are you trying to hide your precious classes > from that the double leading underscore is not good enough > protection ? Even with a 'private' keyword, what stops them from doing > s/private/public/g ? Seriously, the "underscores are ugly" argument > has some merit but language enforced data hiding is overrated, if not > downright silly.
I did not claim that Python should have the same encapsulation rules as C++. I was merely comparing the two in reply to a post that claimed a similarity. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
