[C++-sig] Pyste bug: protected virtual methods

[Niall Douglas]

On 27 Oct 2003 at 16:58, Nicodemus wrote:

> Another solution would be to expose the protected members, but that
> would make them public in Python. I think this solution is more
> flexible, since the purpose of a protected method is to allow
> subclasses to call it... and the user can always rename the methods to
> prepend an "_", following Python's convention. What do you think?

Well you can promote protected or private members to public when 
subclassing, so this looks like a good idea.

If you wanted to make it really pretty, you could make all protected 
members exposed using "_" as you suggest. They are after all not for 
public use.

Cheers,
Niall




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