On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:42:38 -0800, Russ P. wrote: >> My my my. If you don't trust your programmers, then indeed, don't use >> Python. What can I say (and what do I care ?). But once again, relying >> on the language's access restriction to manage *security* is, well, >> kind of funny, you know ? > > Are you seriously saying that if you were managing the production of a > major financial software package with hundreds of developers, you would > just "trust" them all to have free access to the most sensitive and > critical parts of the program? Now *that's*, well, kind of funny, you > know?
I think this is a red-herring. Probably my fault -- I was the first one to mention access controls for banking software. I meant it as an analog to data hiding, rather than implying that one can or should use private/ protected attributes to implement data hiding. Private attributes are a form of data hiding, but not all data hiding can be implemented as private attributes. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
