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Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 11:22:01 -0500
Subject: Re: anomaly
From: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
To: zipher <dreamingforward@gmail.com>
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On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:34 AM, zipher <dreamingforward@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The general principle here is of consenting adults: Python allows you to
>> shadow built-ins because sometimes it is useful, and the good outweighs the
>> potential harm.
>
> I think you'll have to give examples, either from the developer community or some significant use cases to be believable.

http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/writing/style/#we-are-all-responsible-users
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14168791/actual-implementation-of-private-variables-in-python-class

I'll leave it for you to rummage around in old Python posts for actual
posts by Guido where he has stated, "we're all adults here".

I did find this interesting blog post about encapsulation and
test-driven development:

https://jasonmbaker.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/enemies-of-test-driven-development-part-i-encapsulation/

I found the author's perspective interesting.

S