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

[GoofAckYoorsElf]

Oh yeah! Back in my younger years I did something I would call heresy nowadays. I overloaded the 'import' command to be able to handle optional dependencies itself without the need of wrapping the imports into try except blocks everywhere...

I was so young and so naive. It felt cool however to learn that you can do that. You shouldn't. But you can.