How do these Java concepts translate to Python?

[Ray]

Fausto Arinos Barbuto wrote:
> Ray wrote:
>
> > 1. Where are the access specifiers? (public, protected, private)
>
>     AFAIK, there is not such a thing in Python.

So everything is public? I know that you can prefix a member with
underscores to make something private, but how about protected, for
example?

> 
> ---Fausto