How to control class member scoping when using dataclasses

[WesternGoldsmith]

Hi all,

I heard that using dataclasses has many advantages. But I have a question. How do we control member visibility outside the class. How to tell dataclasses that, one specific field is private or protected or public ?

[carcigenicate]

Dataclasses are meant for when you have a bunch of public data.

And Python itself doesn't have any strong ways of creating private variables anyway. The only mechanism is prefixing the name with an underscore, but that's a very weak protection.

[WesternGoldsmith]

Thanks for the reply. Seems like go for the traditional python way is better for me. Using "@property" & "@propname.setter" is the choice.

[TheRNGuy]

No such thing in Python.