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Subject: Re: Unable to access module attribute with underscores in class method, Python 3
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2016 03:16:35 +1100
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On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 3:07 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> If you absolutely insist that you must must must continue to use a double
> underscore name, you could also try this:
>
> py> __a = 1
> py> class Test:
> ...     def method(self):
> ...             x = eval("__a")
> ...             print(x)
> ...
> py> Test().method()
> 1
>
>
> But don't do that.

Seriously? You consider that less bad than globals()["__a"]?

But all of this is craziness to support craziness. It's not asking
which inmate should run the asylum - it's asking which of my multiple
personalities should be elected fourteen-year-old queen.

ChrisA