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Re:Object Oriented Programming in Python: Encapsulation and ... by masklinn on Sunday September 24, 2017 @01:00PM (#15325487)
Name mangling was never intended as a way to make variables private (or pseudo-private) but as a way to avoid conflicts when designing for inheritance.
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Re:Object Oriented Programming in Python: Encapsulation and ... by Walkman on Monday September 25, 2017 @03:47PM (#15333463)
Exactly!
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