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Subject: Re: Encapsulation unpythonic?
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 23:07:47 -0700 (PDT), Fabrice Pombet <fp2161@gmail.com>
declaimed the following:

>well, look at that:
>
>a=(1,2)
>a=2+3 ->a is an object and I have changed its type and value from outside. As far as I am concerned this is one hell of an encapsulation violation... Could you do this -strictly speaking- in Java or C++?

	There is where your major misunderstanding is...

"a" is a NAME attached (bound) to an object. In the first statement, the
object is the tuple (1,2). That object was not changed when you execute the
second statement -- which is taking two integer objects and creating a new
integer object having a value of '5', and then attaches the NAME "a" to the
new object. If no other names are bound to the (1,2) object, it will be
garbage collected.

	At no time do you change the type/value of the OBJECT.
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