Why does python not have a mechanism for data hiding?

[Antoon Pardon]

On 2008-06-04, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch <bj_666 at gmx.net> wrote:

>>> it makes sense to me to also test if they work as documented.
>> 
>> If they affect the behaviour of some public component, that's where
>> the documentation should be.
>
> As I said they are public themselves for someone.

Isn't that contradictory: "Public for someone" I always
thought "public" meant accessible to virtually anyone.
Not to only someone.

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Antoon Pardon