Private methods

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 11:08:13 -0600, Ian Kelly wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Demian Brecht <demianbrecht at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> A single underscore semantically means private. A double underscore
>> will name mangle the function such that it's only accessible strictly
>> by name through the class that it's define in. Note that you *can*
>> still access it if you understand how name mangling works. Nothing in
>> Python is truly private.
> 
> I tend to view name mangling as being more for avoiding internal
> attribute collisions in complex inheritance structures than for
> designating names as private.

Really? I tend to view name mangling as a waste of time, and complex 
inheritance structures as something to avoid.



-- 
Steven