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Doesn't the "__hello" def qualify for your description? It shows up in both dir() outputs, although admittedly it is "name mangled" with the outer class name, s
by mdaniel 1y ago
Doesn't the "__hello" def qualify for your description? It shows up in both dir() outputs, although admittedly it is "name mangled" with the outer class name, so maybe that's what they meant
I guess this could qualify for a TIL because I didn't know Python treated leading and trailing dunders any different and that they were its implementation of "protected" and "private" only by convention
- arjvik 1y agoThe name mangling is what is being referred to. Specifically, you can access it as Sekrit()._Sekrit__hello(), but that's a pretty obvious boundary-break compared to .__hello(). Members ending in a double underscore as well aren't mangled, because this interferes with syntax sugar methods like __add__ (addition operator overloading).