Why self?

[Bo M. Maryniuck]

On Monday 08 July 2002 21:27, Brian Quinlan wrote:
> Two leading underscores make the instance variable private. 
And only for this... Actually they are not private as they should be. :)
-----------------8<-----------------
class stuff:
    def __init__(self):
        self.bar = 'bar'
        self.__baz = 'baz'
        __spam = 'spam'
        
stf = stuff()
print stf.bar
print stf._stuff__baz
print dir(stf)
-----------------8<-----------------

Prints this:
-----------------8<-----------------
bar
baz
['_stuff__baz', 'bar']
-----------------8<-----------------

May be it is possible to access even __spam variable somehow...

> Python forces you to be explicit. That way we will know what you are
> doing, right or wrong.
That what I love Python -- C/C++ is very "buggy". :)

-- 
Sincerely yours, Bogdan M. Maryniuck

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