[Python-3000] Generic function PEP won't make it in time

[Luis P Caamano]

On 4/24/07, "Guido van Rossum" <guido at python.org> wrote:
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> But Python doesn't have protected, and isn't about to get it.
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We use methods names with one underscore as a convention for protected
methods and I think we learned that from somebody else:

class Eggs:

  def thePublicMethod(self):
      things = self._myProtected()
      return [ "thing_%s" % str(thing) for thing in things]

  def _myProtected(self):
      raise RuntimeError("missing base method")

class RealEggs(AbstractEggs):
  def _myProtected(self):
      return ["one", "two"]


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Luis P Caamano
Atlanta, GA USA