Why does python not have a mechanism for data hiding?

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:34:58 +0000, Antoon Pardon wrote:

> On 2008-06-04, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>>>> it makes sense to me to also test if they work as documented.
>>> 
>>> If they affect the behaviour of some public component, that's where
>>> the documentation should be.
>>
>> As I said they are public themselves for someone.
> 
> Isn't that contradictory: "Public for someone" I always
> thought "public" meant accessible to virtually anyone.
> Not to only someone.

For the programmer who writes or uses the private API it isn't really
"private", he must document it or know how it works.  And he should IMHO
write tests for it and expect "private" functions written by others to be
tested.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch