Why does this work?

[Don Garrett]

"Delaney, Timothy" wrote:
> 
> > From: Phlip [mailto:phlip_cpp at my-deja.com]
> >
> > We find just >having< a style guideline slightly more
> > important than the
> > value of any few marginal items in it.
> >
> > And we like to find ways to cure the "magic member bug". If
> > you can think of
> > any others, please share.
> 
> __slots__
> 
> Tim Delaney

  Um... this does help protect them from outside interferance, but doesn't in
any way require them to have been initialized in __init__, or even protect you
from a misspelled name, does it? Just trying to make sure that nothing goes on
with __names besides the name mangling into __class__name.

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