Why less emphasis on private data?

[Andrea Griffini]

Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

 >> ... and on
>> the opposite I didn't expect that fighting with object
>> leaking in complex python applications was that difficult
>> (I've heard of zope applications that just gave up and
>> resorted to the "reboot every now and then" solution).
>>
> Zope is a special case here, since it relies on an object database...

Just to clarify my post... I found by being punched myself
in the nose what does it mean to have a complex python
application that suffers from object leaking; it's not
something I only read about zope programs.

But why zope applications would be a special case ?

Andrea