How do I access a private attribute of a parent class from a subclass (without making it public)?
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How do I access a private attribute of a parent class from a subclass (without making it public)?
My understanding of Python convention is
Options for if you control the parent class
since that seems like what you really
want
_protected_access_to_member…) to limit the protected access
If you don’t control it
dir(object) you will see names
something like _Class__member which is
what Python does to leading __ to
“make it private”. There isn’t
truly private in python. This is probably considered evil.