In <16b72319-8023-471c-ba40-8025aa6d4...@a26g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> writes:
>> First, one of the goals of OO is encapsulation, not only at the >> level of instances, but also at the level of classes. =A0Your comment >> suggests that Python does not fully support class-level encapsulation. >I can't answer this, I don't even know what you are talking about. Yes, you do. As I said in another post, Python offers some degree of class-level encapsulation (e.g. class variables). But it is limited by the fact that these class-encapsulated elements can't always be accessed from within the class itself, which is kind of silly. >1. One of the key aspects of Python's design is that attributes must >be accessed explicitly with dot notation. Accessing class scopes from >nested functions would (seemingly) allow access to class attributes >without the dotted notation. Therefore it is not allowed. It would be trivial to define a keyword (e.g. this, or if you prefer, __this__), valid only within a class statement, and that the interpreter would recognize as "the current class", even before this class is full defined. kynn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
