[Tutor] Data hiding in Python.

[Jonathon Sisson]

> My vote is, no, not worth the trouble. It's Java / C++ / static-typing / 
> put-the-client-in-a-straightjacket-so-they-don't-touch-anything thinking.
> 

Heh...and don't forget the king-pin of them all, C#.  Between private, 
public, protected, internal, and protected internal I lose track of what 
I was originally doing and end up contemplating the meaning of "what if 
another programmer wants to use this creation of mine" instead of doing 
what I set out to do...

I'm with Kent on this one...definitely not worth the trouble to 
bastardize Python like that...

As a side note, does anyone have a good argument for access level 
controls like C#?  I personally think it's a waste of time (much like 
C#/ASP.NET...my apologies to any .NET fans out there...), and honestly 
the arguable margin of security that access modifiers provide is 
outweighed by the cons, in my opinion.  (And usually what programmers 
end up doing is creating "service methods" that allow access anyways, so 
the margin of "security" is lost).  Thoughts?

Jonathon