I'm learning Python and it seems that private and protected classes and variables aren't really used. It seems that private variables a prefixes with __ and protected are prefixed with _. It is then left up to the programmer to respect the wishes of the original designer of the class.
Is the above observation correct? If it is how do IDEs handle auto-complete? Do they just show everything? I don't use auto-complete for anything so it's not a big deal I just found this concept interesting. It would also seem to make the code harder to understand for someone coming from another language that makes heavy use of protect/private keywords to the public interface obvious. What are your thoughts on that?
Sorry, if this is a random noob question. I am a Python noob
Edit:
Thanks to dchuck for the nettutsplus link in another thread that started me down this road. I thought I'd hate the whitespace issues, but after setting up vim properly they don't seem to be an issue.
Is the above observation correct? If it is how do IDEs handle auto-complete? Do they just show everything? I don't use auto-complete for anything so it's not a big deal I just found this concept interesting. It would also seem to make the code harder to understand for someone coming from another language that makes heavy use of protect/private keywords to the public interface obvious. What are your thoughts on that?
Sorry, if this is a random noob question. I am a Python noob
Edit:
Thanks to dchuck for the nettutsplus link in another thread that started me down this road. I thought I'd hate the whitespace issues, but after setting up vim properly they don't seem to be an issue.
