On Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:16:01 -0000, Russ P. <russ.paie...@gmail.com> wrote:
Here we go again. If you have access to the source code (as you nearly always do with Python code), then "breaking the language-enforced data hiding" is a trivial matter of deleting the word "private" (or equivalent).
If it's that trivial to defeat something that its proponents appear to want to be close to an iron-clad guarantee, what on earth is the point of using "private" in the first place? -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeeste Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
