"Private" attributes - a possible idea (maybe PEP-worthy).

[Delaney, Timothy]

> From: Tim Peters [mailto:tim.one at home.com]
> 
> [Delaney, Timothy]
> > ...
> > Ah - but my most important point was that sometimes you may 
> not know the
> > know of one of the classes in the inheritance tree. Say I 
> have a class
> > called Klass, and I want to create a subclass called TimKlass.
> > ...
> 
> See
> 
>     http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/886237
> 
> for an entry into one of the most recent repetitions of this 
> thread <wink>.

Yes - I thought I was part of that thread, but it appears not.

In any case, it's still a wart.

I'd like to close this thread here (which I created because I thought I'd
come up with a way to get around the wart) unless someone *can* come up with
a way to deal with it.

Tim Delaney