Exposing members or make them private in Python?
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Is there a general convention about exposing members in Python classes? I know that this is a case of "it depends", but maybe there is a rule of thumb.
Private member:
class Node:
def __init__(self):
self.__childs = []
def add_childs(self, *args):
self.__childs += args
node = Node()
node.add_childs("one", "two")
Public member:
class Node2:
def __init__(self):
self.childs = []
node2 = Node2()
node2.childs += "one", "two"
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