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Re: To make a method or attribute private

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Date 2013-01-21 12:26 +1100
Subject Re: To make a method or attribute private
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 12:14 PM, iMath <redstone-cold@163.com> wrote:
> so there is no REAL private variable in Python but conversion exists in it that python programmer should follow and recognize .right ?

That's about it. If you think about C++ public members as the
"interface" and private/protected members as the "implementation",
then Python's convention is a leading underscore on the latter; you
can reasonably expect that non-underscore members can be trusted to be
maintained, but underscored members will quite possibly change in
subsequent versions.

Among smart people, conventions like this are all you need.

ChrisA

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To make a method or attribute private  "iMath" <2281570025@qq.com> - 2013-01-17 08:34 +0800
  Re: To make a method or attribute private alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-01-16 17:04 -0800
    Re: To make a method or attribute private iMath <redstone-cold@163.com> - 2013-01-20 06:52 -0800
      Re: To make a method or attribute private Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-01-20 15:15 +0000
  Re: To make a method or attribute private Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-01-17 02:38 +0000
  Re: To make a method or attribute private iMath <redstone-cold@163.com> - 2013-01-20 17:14 -0800
    Re: To make a method or attribute private Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-21 12:26 +1100
    Re: To make a method or attribute private Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-01-21 03:27 +0000
      Re: To make a method or attribute private Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-01-21 15:46 +1100
        Re: To make a method or attribute private alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-01-20 21:44 -0800

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