Python Isn’t About Control

Now that I’ve gone to such great lengths to add Private and Public attribute declarations for Python code, I must again remind you that it is not entirely Pythonic to add access controls to your classes like this. In fact, most Python programmers will probably find this example to be largely or totally irrelevant, apart from serving as a demonstration of decorators in action. Most large Python programs get by successfully without any such controls at all. If you do wish to regulate attribute access in order to eliminate coding mistakes, though, or happen to be a soon-to-be-ex-C++-or-Java programmer, most things are possible with Python’s operator overloading and introspection tools.