Python for system administrators (developerWorks)

Posted Sep 6, 2007 9:58 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: Python for system administrators (developerWorks) by albeady
Parent article: Python for system administrators (developerWorks)

Visibility is not properly a function of the object system. Python solves this problem the way other languages have solved it, properly: with a package system. The fact that Python objects don't limit access the way they do in Java and PHP just means that they aren't broken.

The fact that packages handle visibility in Python, instead of objects, also means that you can control visibility for non-OO constructs, like functions and variables, without having to resort to nonsense like container packages and "static methods".