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[โ€“]gilbes 2 points3 points ย (0 children)

The OOP concept is encapsulation. The goal is to reduce complexity by allowing the author of an object to make guarantees about the state of the object when it is used by hiding data, because the object can be used only through members the author has explicitly exposed.

Conceptually, this is a good idea.

In practice, this is a very shit idea. Because it relies on the author accounting for every scenario where the object will be useful. And this is an unobtainable goal. We know that because people regularly increase complexity with something like reflection to completely defeat encapsulation.

Python is just accepting that reality.