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

[Paul Rubin]

alex23 <wuwei23 at gmail.com> writes:
> Okay, let me try a less snippy approach. How do you feel about
> metaclass techniques such as this one by Carl Banks?
> 
> http://code.activestate.com/recipes/573442/

Does the metaclass prevent reaching into the __dict__ in an instance?

Also, attribute protection is just a tiny aspect.  The high assurance
community really wants as much static verification as it can possibly
get.  Python doesn't really lend itself to that.