Python Programming : A Modern Approach

6.18 Python Programming: A Modern Approach

# observe the double underscrore before method name.

def__get_password():

pass

Note that the mangling rules are designed mostly to avoid accidents; it is still possible

to access or modify a variable that is considered private. This can even be useful in

special circumstances, such as in the debugger.

The code passed to exec() or eval() does not consider the classname of

the invoking class to be the current class; this is similar to the effect of the global

statement, the effect of which is likewise restricted to the code that is byte compiled

together. The same restriction applies to getattr(), setattr() ...