Do PRIVATE variables EXIST in Python classes?

Published: 30 January 2023
on channel: Coders Bring Change (Python for Everyone)
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Many Python tutorials speak of private variables. But can a dynamic language like Python even have private variables? The answer is no. There is no way to protect class attributes from being access from the outside. In this video you see why the visibility of all properties is public in Python.

C H A P T E R S
0:11 How people use underscores and call them private
0:26 How you think you can do it and why it is impossible (examples)
2:45 Double underscores are for name mangling and has another purpose
3:08 Single underscore is a convention

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L I N K S I N T H E V I D E O
Python private variables documentation: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/cl...

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