Why does python not have a mechanism for data hiding?

[Ville M. Vainio]

Fuzzyman <fuzzyman at gmail.com> writes:


>> Perhaps a lint-like validation tool would be optimal for this
>> problem...
>
> So we can refuse to execute their code if they use private APIs?

No, but it could complain and point out the exact offending lines,
pointing their development effort to right direction.

> Proxying so that we can really hide our internal APIs is a better
> solution.

How about pyprotocols and other interface packages?

Proxying is pretty workable too, and it easily makes sense that the
official API objects should be different from the logic executing
objects.