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class Student :
schoolName = 'XYZ School' # class attribute
def __init__ ( self , name , age ) :
self . name = name # instance attribute
self . age = age # instance attribute
>> > std = Student ( "Steve" , 25 )
>> > std . schoolName
'XYZ School'
>> > std . name
'Steve'
>> > std . age = 20
>> > std . age
25
class Student :
_schoolName = 'XYZ School' # protected class attribute
def __init__ ( self , name , age ) :
self . _name = name # protected instance attribute
self . _age = age # protected instance attribute
>> > std = Student ( "Swati" , 25 )
>> > std . _name
'Swati'
>> > std . _name = 'Dipa'
>> > std . _name
'Dipa'
class Student :
__schoolName = 'XYZ School' # private class attribute
def __init__ ( self , name , age ) :
self . __name = name # private instance attribute
self . __salary = age # private instance attribute
def __display ( self ) : # private method
print ( 'This is private method.' )
>> > std = Student ( "Bill" , 25 )
>> > std . __schoolName
AttributeError : 'Student' object has no attribute '__schoolName'
>> > std . __name
AttributeError : 'Student' object has no attribute '__name'
>> > std . __display ( )
AttributeError : 'Student' object has no attribute '__display'
>> > std = Student ( "Bill" , 25 )
>> > std . _Student__name
'Bill'
>> > std . _Student__name = 'Steve'
>> > std . _Student__name
'Steve'
>> > std . _Student__display ( )
'This is private method.'
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Classical object-oriented languages, such as C++ and Java, control the access to class resources by public, private, and protected keywords. Private members of the class are denied access from the environment outside the class. They can be handled only from within the class.
Public members (generally methods declared in a class) are accessible from outside the class. The object of the same class is required to invoke a public method.
This arrangement of private instance variables and public methods ensures the principle of data encapsulation.
All members in a Python class are public by default. Any member can be accessed from outside the class environment.
You can access the Student class's attributes and also modify their values, as shown below.
Protected members of a class are accessible from within the class and are also available to its sub-classes.
No other environment is permitted access to it. This enables specific resources of the parent class to be inherited by the child class.
Python's convention to make an instance variable protected is to add a prefix _ (single underscore) to it.
This effectively prevents it from being accessed unless it is from within a sub-class.
In fact, this doesn't prevent instance variables from accessing or modifying the instance. You can still perform the following operations:
Hence, the responsible programmer would refrain from accessing and modifying instance variables prefixed with _ from outside its class.
Python doesn't have any mechanism that effectively restricts access to any instance variable or method. Python prescribes a convention of prefixing the name of the variable/method with a single or double underscore to emulate the behavior of protected and private access specifiers.
The double underscore __ prefixed to a variable makes it private .
It gives a strong suggestion not to touch it from outside the class. Any attempt to do so will result in an AttributeError:
Python performs name mangling of private variables. Every member with a double underscore will be changed to _object._class__variable . So, it can still be accessed from outside the class, but the practice should be refrained.
Thus, Python provides conceptual implementation of public, protected, and private access modifiers, but not like other languages like C# , Java, C++.
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tl;dr Prefix your attribute or method names with a single underscore. However, be aware that Python doesn’t support encapsulation, so nothing is really private.
dir() lists all the attributes (and methods) that an object has
To conclude, Python doesn’t support encapsulation. You should still prefix your private attributes and methods with one leading underscore so that users of your class know that they shouldn’t directly access these attributes. On the other hand, if you are the user of a class, don’t access attributes or methods that start with a leading underscore.
Let me preface this article by emphasizing that understanding object-oriented programming (OOP) is crucial if you want to learn Python .
One aspect of OOP is to learn how to define and use private methods.
In this article, I will teach you how to create private methods, when to use them, and why they are necessary.
Warning: this is going to be a long in-depth article about private methods but if you only want to know how to define private methods in Python, here is the tl;dr.
Check out my in-depth Python OOP course .
A private method is a Class method that can only be called from inside the Class where it is defined.
This means that you can’t (and shouldn’t) access or call these methods from outside of the Class.
They are the opposite of public methods which are, as you might have guessed, methods that can be accessed from inside the class as well as outside the class.
Let’s look at a simple example of a private method in a programming language other than Python, say Java. (You will understand why later)
In Java, the private keyword is used to declare a private method. So in this example, we define a private method called printHello() in class Hello .
If you try to call this method from outside of the class, it would just not work.
If you execute the above code, you get this self-explanatory compile error message.
However, you can still access the private method from within the class. Let’s define a new public method that accesses our private method internally.
Now if you execute the above program, you won’t get any errors and you will get the string “Hello world” printed on the screen.
Notice that the private method printHello() was only called from within the class and the main program only called the public print() method.
Well, that’s cool and all. You probably knew that already. The main question is why do we need private methods in the first place? and when should we use them?
First things first, remember that encapsulation is one of the tenets of object-oriented programming (OOP).
In object-oriented programming, encapsulation means hiding the internal implementation of an object from the outside world.
This means that the only way to interact with an object is through the object’s well-defined interface.
In other words, think of an object as a black box that you can interact with through a well-defined interface without having to worry about how the black box is actually implemented.
For example, imagine an object that represents a car, a simple car that only allows you to drive() it by pressing on the gas pedal or stop() it by pressing on the brakes.
In this case, we say that drive() and stop() are the interfaces between you (the user of the car) and the car instance.
You don’t have to worry about how the car actually moves or stops. This is not your problem. This is what the designer of the car cares about. For you, all you want to do is either drive or stop the car. This is what encapsulation is in a nutshell.
That’s cool and all, but let’s not talk about cars and talk about software now.
First: I mentioned that encapsulation hides the object’s implementation from the outside world. What is the outside world?
The outside world is basically other developers who are going to be using the Class that you are designing (it could be you).
It is NOT the end-user who is going to consume your binary (those will have either a user interface or a CLI), but encapsulation (at least in the OOP world) is about developer consumers.
Second: Why is encapsulation useful? why does it matter?
Great question. let’s go back to the car example that we explained earlier.
Imagine you want to replace the engine of your car with a newer, more powerful engine.
Do you (the user of the car) need to learn anything new to be able to drive the car after you had replaced the engine?
Absolutely not. Still, all you need to do is press on the gas pedal and the car will move.
This abstraction is critical in order to write maintainable code .
In other (more realistic) words, when you write your classes and libraries with solid, well-defined interfaces, this allows you (the designer of the class) to change the implementation details at a later time without affecting how other developers interact with your class.
This is because, as long as the interface doesn’t change, then everything is good. Nothing breaks.
However, if you don’t have a well-defined interface, then every time you change your code, you introduce a breaking change that will require all the users of your class to change their code. This is a code maintainability nightmare .
In object-oriented programming, you define this interface by declaring public attributes and methods.
And you achieve encapsulation by declaring private attributes and methods.
With this introduction, now we can start the article 🙂
Before moving to private methods and attributes, let’s start with a simple example.
In this example, we defined a Class called MyClass .
Inside this Class, within the __init__ method, we defined one attribute var that is initialized with the value 1 and a get_var method that returns the value of var .
Now let’s read and then change the value of var .
As you can see, we easily changed the value of var from 1 to 2.
We were able to do that because we have ACCESS to the attribute var from the outside.
But what if we want to hide this attribute from external users?
In the next section, I will teach you how to make this attribute private.
To define private attributes or methods in Python, here is what you need to do.
Just prefix the name with a single underscore .
Now let’s rewrite the above example to make var as well as get_var private.
Cool. Now let’s see what happens when we try to access this private attribute.
I thought we can’t access private attributes or private methods! How is that possible?
Here me out, I promise I didn’t trick you 🙂
In Python, private access to private attributes (and methods) is not enforced.
So when we say that attributes which start with a single underscore are “private”, that is just a convention. But it is not enforced.
Python has no support for encapsulation. I love encapsulation, but the designers of the language decided not to support it. Oh well.
By saying that encapsulation is not enforced, that doesn’t mean you should access attributes and methods that are prefixed with an underscore.
Don’t do it because you are not supposed to.
In addition to that, if you are designing your own class or library, and you want to hint to your library users that they shouldn’t access specific attributes or methods, prefix the variable names with a single underscore.
Normally, this article should end here. However, there is one more thing I need to talk about before this article is fully complete.
We talked about what happens when you prefix method and attribute names with one underscore, but I am sure you have seen names with two leading underscores (and no trailing underscores).
What do these double leading underscores do?
Let’s go back to our Class, and define our var and get_var() , but this time using double underscores instead of just one.
Now let’s see what happens when we try to access __var like before.
It seems that Python can’t find the attribute __var , although we have just defined it in our Class.
Similarly, if you try to access __get_var() , you get the same error.
One thing we could possibly do to investigate what’s going on is to print the content of dir(my_object)
Interesting! It seems like Python renamed the variable __var and __get_var to _MyClass__var and _MyClass__get_var respectively.
This behavior of changing the attribute or method names is called Name Mangling.
Name Mangling makes it harder to access the variables from outside the Class, but it is still accessible through _MyClass__var.
Similarly, you can access __get_var with its mangled name _MyClass__get_var .
In other words, outside the Class you would need to use the mangled name of the attribute, but inside the Class , you can still access the attribute in the normal way. (look how we accessed __var from inside __get_var() )
It is worth mentioning though that some developers mistakenly use name mangling to denote private attributes and methods.
This is not right as this is not what name mangling is used for.
Name mangling is primarily used when you have inherited classes, but this is another story for another time.
What you should do is that you should follow the convention and use a single leading underscore to denote something as private .
Karim has a PhD in Computer Science from the university of California, Santa Barbara. He had over three years of experience teaching CS to undergrads, over 5 years of experience doing research, and is currently working for a Fortune 100 company. He is largely interested in distributed systems, machine learning, fitness, and soccer
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