Why does python not have a mechanism for data hiding?

[NickC]

On Jun 4, 4:09 am, "Russ P." <Russ.Paie... at gmail.com> wrote:
> What is it about leading underscores that bothers me? To me, they are
> like a small pebble in your shoe while you are on a hike. Yes, you can
> live with it, and it does no harm, but you still want to get rid of it.

With leading underscores, you can see *at the point of dereference*
that the code is accessing private data. With a "this is private"
keyword you have no idea whether you're accessing private or public
data, because the two namespaces get conflated together.

I'll keep my pebble, thanks.

Cheers,
Nick.