Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> writes: > Ok so is the implication that external references to M.X could possibly > be controllable by get/set mechanisms, but inside M such controls > wouldn't work? Inside M you could presumably import M and work with M.X. Yes. :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)