Class design (information hiding)

[Gregor Horvath]

Alexander Eisenhuth schrieb:
> 
> I'm wodering how the information hiding in python is ment. As I 
> understand there  doesn't exist public / protected / private  mechanism, 
> but a '_' and '__' naming convention.
> 
> As I figured out there is only public and private possible as speakin in 
> "C++ manner". Are you all happy with it. What does "the zen of python" 
> say to that design? (protected is useless?)

My favourite thread to this FAQ:

http://groups.google.at/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/2c85d6412d9e99a4/b977ed1312e10b21#b977ed1312e10b21

Greg