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

[Tim Peters]

[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>.