Writing "pythonish" code

[Toby A Inkster]

Mizipzor wrote:

> One thing is that in c++ im used to have private members in classes and
> no member is altered except through the public functions of the class.

By convention, class members starting with a single underscore are
considered private. 

This is much the same as the convention that on UNIX, files that start with
a dot are considered hidden -- there is nothing actually *preventing* a
programme from showing you these files in a directory listing, but by
convention it won't, unless you explicitly ask to see them.

Class members starting with a double underscore are "mangled" which makes
it more difficult for other code (even subclasses!) to access the member.
Difficult though -- not impossible.

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