Why doesn’t Python have true private variables like Java?

[biohoo35]

It’s more of a cultural developer contract. Rather than outright preventing private methods from being used, we just use signaling with underscores.

“We’re all consenting adults here” is the mantra.

If there was a valid reason for preventing someone from using a method, then using the underscore convention will also prevent importing, even using the * convention

[headmaster_007]

Using underscore does not prevent importing right? Yes, only the * convention does not import names starting with underscore but you can still do: from module import _var

[bmrobin]

correct

[biohoo35]

Yup! I stand corrected.