Newbie asks about static variables...

[Martijn Faassen]

Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> [William Tanksley, discovers that _eggs can be imported explicitly from
>  module spam, as in spam._eggs, while "from spam import *" doesn't leave
>  _eggs on anyone's face]

I think that was me; at least, in response to Willam Tanksley.
 
> > ...
> > This seems to me rather inconsistent behavior; is there a reason why
> > this is so?

*this* was me. :)
 
> [Moshe Zadka]
> > Python was not designed (I think) for thieves and murderers, unlike C++.
> 
> That's right.  Python was designed for *nice* people! 

I'm nice, I'm nice! No, really!

[snip]
> Back when the easily-circumvented "__" convention for mangling class-pvt
> names was invented, Guido was provoked into revealing the true model for
> Python's data-hiding philosophy:
> 
> [GvR, circa 1996]
> > It's called "advisory locking."  It was pioneered for bike locks in
> > Amsterdam :-)

That's funny. :) Luckily enough Pythoneers are all nice and don't *want*
to steal and murder other people's modules! Unlike some people in
Amsterdam who steal and murder bicycles...

of-course-it-helps-that-we-get-the-source-of-these-modules-anyway-ly
yours,

Martijn