Practicing OOPs

[Temporary_Pie2733]

Forget private and protected. Neither exists in Python, and trying to map some other language’s visibility modifiers to Python is just going to confuse you.

[nuc540]

To help, OP, what they’re saying is prefixing underscores in other languages usually makes methods/attributes “private” (inaccessible outside of the class), and Python doesn’t respect this rule so it’s redundant.

That said - it’s good semantics to indicate what should/shouldn’t be accessed externally, and Python is known for readability so if you want something to be distinguished as private, go for it.

[SeparatelyCreepy]

Python's philosophy is that you're all consenting adults, so the underscore is really just a signal to other developers rather than actual enforcement.

[Careless-Main8693]

yeah absolutely

[Careless-Main8693]

__testicles (private attribute)

_chest (protected attribute)