initializing private members via exec

[Michael Hudson]

Curtis Jensen <cjensen at bioeng.ucsd.edu> writes:

> Why session below give me an error? 

Because name mangling is done by the compiler, basically.

> Is there some rule against initializing private data members inside
> an exec function?  

(aside: "inside an exec function" suggests confusion)

Well, it doesn't work, does it?  So probably, yes.

> Is there an equivalant way of initializing private members?

exec 'self._Foo__monty = 1'?  Note the parentheses are an anachronism wrt
exec.

Not using double underscores?

Cheers,
M.

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