Preventing direct access to a class

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <dc4r7t41dchrbrdabst1ung9mop3u4dnoj at 4ax.com>,
Daniel Klein  <danielk at aracnet.com> wrote:
>
>I have a situation where I need to prevent direct access to a class. 

BTW, the standard Python idiom for declaring this is to precede the
class name with a single underscore (see threading.py for a real
example):

class _foo:
    pass
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