OO in Python? ^^

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sun Dec 11 12:40:15 EST 2005


In article <dnhins$unl$02$1 at news.t-online.com>,
Matthias Kaeppler  <"matthias at finitestate dot org"> wrote:
>
>Why would I want to use an attribute in Python, where I would use 
>getters and setters in Java? I know that encapsulation is actually just 
>a hack in Python (common, "hiding" an implementation detail by prefixing 
>it with the classname so you can't access it by its name anymore? Gimme 
>a break...), but is that a reason to only write white box classes? ^^

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