Restrictive APIs for Python
Roberto Bonvallet
Roberto.Bonvallet at cern.ch
Fri Dec 15 11:10:37 EST 2006
Will Ware wrote:
> Python has no inherent provision for a restrictive API that blocks
> accesses to methods and variables outside an allowed set.
> Inexperienced Python programmers may fail to adhere to an agreed-upon
> API, directly accessing the private internals of a class.
Just don't document those private internals.
Or document that they must not be accessed directly.
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Roberto Bonvallet
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