> > A double leading underscore is requred to coax Python into mangling
    > > an attribute.

    Peter>  heh... so:

    Peter>  C++::private == Python."__*"
    Peter>  C++::protected == Python."_[a-zA-Z]*"
    Peter>  C++::public == Python."[a-zA-Z]*"

    Peter>  ;)

Smiley or not, you seem to be trying a bit too hard to compare Python with
C++.  They serve dramatically different audiences.  After all, "we're all
adults here".  That held true when I first heard it several years ago and it
holds true today.

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