Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:54:31 +0100, Bruno Desthuilliers wrote:

> Russ P. a écrit :
> (snip)
>> In any case, I have suggested that Python should perhaps get a new
>> keyword, "private" or "priv".
> 
> And quite a few people - most of them using Python daily - answered they
> didn't wan't it.

Then they don't have to use it.

Lots of people think that double-underscore name mangling is a waste of 
time: not strict enough to be useful, not open enough to be Pythonic. 
Solution? Don't use double-underscore names.



-- 
Steven