Lennart Regebro wrote:
>  From: "maxm" <maxm@[...].dk>
>  
> >Usually a private method is used purely as a mean of implementation. And
> >should never be called from other objects. This is not the case here, as
> >the method is clearly a part of the api.
>  
>  
>  Well, no, it isn't really, since it starts with _. However, python do not in
>  itself enforce privacy, so therefore you *can* call it. But by starting it
>  with _ it is private by convention. Zope also implements some of this
>  privacy, so you can't call it from Python scripts and so on.

Sorry but I don't see that. How on earth are you suposed to add an 
object to an objectmanager, if you don't use _setObject() ??

Every time you make an object that subclasses ObjectManager, wich is 
often, you need to use that function. That can hardly be called private.


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hilsen/regards Max M Rasmussen, Denmark

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