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Re: Will python never intend to support private, protected and public?

Steve Holden <st...@holdenweb.com>

could ildg wrote:
> Python is wonderful except that it has no real private and protected
> properties and methods.
> Every py object has dict so that you can easily find what fields and
> methods an obj has,
> this is very convenient, but because of this, py is very hard to support
> real private and
> protected?
> If private and protected is supported, python will be perfect.

You only say that because you assume private and protected give you a
security that they actually don't. They certainly make it more difficult
to *spot* the security errors.

regards
  Steve
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