Not possible to hide local variables
Ethan Furman
ethan at stoneleaf.us
Tue Apr 28 03:56:09 EDT 2015
On 04/28, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> If I remember correctly you can not hide variables of a class or make
> them read-only?
>
> I want to rewrite my moving average to python. The init is:
> def __init__(self, length):
> if type(length) != int:
> raise ParameterError, 'Parameter has to be an int'
> if n < 0:
> raise ValueError, 'Parameter should be greater or equal 2'
> self.length = length
> self.old_values = []
> self.current_total = 0
>
> But when someone changes length, old_values, or current_total that
> would wreck havoc with my class instance. What is the best way to
> handle this?
Prefix those names with a single leading underscore, which is the convention
for private variables.
This way, if some user (maybe you! ;) has a good reason to change those
values in can be done, but it is quite clear that said user is mucking about
with internals and they are on their own.
--
~Ethan~
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