How to make a module function visible only inside the module?

[beginner]

On Aug 18, 8:27 pm, ra... at dot.com (Lawrence Oluyede) wrote:
> beginner <zyzhu2... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there any equivalent version of C's static function in Python. I
> > know I can make a class function private by starting a function name
> > with two underscores, but it does not work with module functions.
>
> The trick for the name mangling does not work at module level. Anyway,
> if you read the PEP 8 [1] you can correctly write your code following a
> well known coding standard. A function like this:
>
> def _f():
>     pass
>
> is meant to be private, you can also state it in the function's
> docstring to be more clear, if you want, but it's not necessary
>
> > For exmaple, __func1 is still visible outside the module.
>
> Yes, and _f() will also be. There's no such thing as enforcing
> encapsulation in Python, even the "__method()" trick can be easily
> bypassed if you have to.
>
> 1 - <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>
>
> HTH
>
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> Lawrence, oluyede.org - neropercaso.it
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Thanks a lot. I was using two underscores, __module_method() as my
static method convention, and then I had some problems calling them
from inside class methods.