Dear Dennis
Thanx for the prompt reply.
I am talking about protected members (those starting with single
underscore). Take it other way, What is the difference between public and
private membership in python?

With Regards
Nihar Ranjan Roy
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On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 10:34 AM Dennis Sweeney <report@bugs.python.org>
wrote:

>
> Dennis Sweeney <sweeney.dennis650@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> Being in different modules is irrelevant. Attribute names that start with
> double underscores and don't end with double underscores are "mangled" by
> the compiler to include the class name as well:
>
> >>> class MyClass:
> ...     def __init__(self):
> ...         self.__data = 17
> ...
> ...
> >>> x = MyClass()
> >>> x._MyClass__data
> 17
>
>
> See
> https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/classes.html?highlight=mangle#private-variables
>
> I don't think there's a bug here.
>
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