Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > On 09/10/2012 14:24, D.M. Procida wrote: > > What exactly is the point of a private method? Why or when would I want > > to use one? > > > > Daniele > > > > Hardly a Python question but using a search engine could have got you > here, and rather faster :) > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2620699/why-private-methods-in-the-ob ject-oriented
Thanks. Sometimes I prefer to talk to real people on Usenet than do web searches. Just my preference. Anyway, one of the answers on that page explains that public methods are interfaces to a class, that other things might rely on, and private ones are for its own internal logic, that other things don't need to care about. In Python, using an underscore is simply a convention to note that a method is private - it doesn't actually hide it from other things - correct? Daniele -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
