Private class and instance methods?

[Erik Max Francis]

Mark Pilgrim wrote:

> There is a better way to do this in Python, using the __getattr__ and
> __setattr__ special methods.

Ah, good point.  That didn't occur to me right away.  Thanks to you and
Paul Foley in private email for the suggestion.  (Note that I didn't
actually _plan_ on using private methods and accessor methods, I was
just thinking about the Python analogue.)

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