They're only private in a sense that you're not supposed to access them, there's no enforcement by the language in any way beyond renaming them `_<class>__<attr

They're only private in a sense that you're not supposed to access them, there's no enforcement by the language in any way beyond renaming them `_<class>__<attr>`. They're still accessible and they still show up in `dir`, `__dict__`, etc.