Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

[James Mills]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Rhodri James
<rhodri at wildebst.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> I wouldn't violently object to having some means of policing class
> or module privacy, but it does have consequences.  When it's a
> convention, you can break it; when it isn't, you can't, even if
> you do have good reason.  Add that to the obviousness of the
> "leading underscore => private" convention, and I just don't see
> a burning need for it, that's all.

Bare in mind also, that enfocing access control / policing as you
called it has a performance hit as the machine (the Python vm)
has to perform checks each time members of an object are accessed.

I can think of no reason to want to do this at runtime hwatosever
and I've been developing in Python for quite some years now.

cheers
James