[Python-ideas] Re: Introduce constants in Python (constant name binding)

if you want it for debugging, then static type checkers can do that for you.

2) This would allow another branch of OOP programming to enter Python.

Read-only member variables. There are Private members in Java and C++.

Then use Java or C++ -- the benefits of Python are not primarily the syntax, but it's dynamic nature.

Though this does bring up an interesting (to the ignorant of most things typing me) question: Do the static type checkers support the concept of private attributes?

That might be a nice feature.

-CHB

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