Hello, On Tue, 22 Dec 2020 01:10:17 +1300 Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> On 22/12/20 12:36 am, Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > > Expected clarification on ".__dict__ breaking object > > encapsulation": > > Encapsulation is not something that Python has ever been big > on. There are plenty of places where implementation details are > exposed, and we don't regard that as a problem. That's still not the reason to e.g. make the value of the proverbial LOAD_METHOD opcode be available via dict type attribute, like: dict.LOAD_METHOD. Or for that matter, not the reason to provide object's internal storage via object's attribute: obj.__dict__. But the question was about (thru-the-time) relationship of vars() vs .__dict__ ... -- Best regards, Paul mailto:pmis...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/KI2M2GO4MD6G3GZWP6KP5XQRVHVGWP4I/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
