I happened to discover the following while looking around this course materials.
At least in Part 9 and 10, the term "private" is widely used. It seems that Part 9 introduces the concept of "private" related to the concept of encapsulation.
But my question is, is that really a convention for the Python community to use mangling(__variable) to represent private variables and methods inside a class? According to this official docs regarding private variables mangling is used for avoiding naming collisions in class inheritance.
Note that the mangling rules are designed mostly to avoid accidents; it still is possible to access or modify a variable that is considered private. This can even be useful in special circumstances, such as in the debugger.
I am not a Python expert so I am not sure about the current standpoint of the community on this matter(and PEP8 seems a bit ambiguous). Could you recommend a few resources such as open source code examples? I'll really appreciate it.
I happened to discover the following while looking around this course materials.
At least in Part 9 and 10, the term "private" is widely used. It seems that Part 9 introduces the concept of "private" related to the concept of encapsulation.
But my question is, is that really a convention for the Python community to use mangling(
__variable) to represent private variables and methods inside a class? According to this official docs regarding private variables mangling is used for avoiding naming collisions in class inheritance.I am not a Python expert so I am not sure about the current standpoint of the community on this matter(and PEP8 seems a bit ambiguous). Could you recommend a few resources such as open source code examples? I'll really appreciate it.