"Any traditional OOP programmer might tell you that essential elements of OOP are encapsulation and message passing.
The Python equivalents are namespaces and methods.
Python doesn't subscribe to protecting the code from the programmer, like some of the more BSD languages. Python does encapsulate objects as a single namespace but it's a transluscent encapsulation."
The Python equivalents are namespaces and methods.
Python doesn't subscribe to protecting the code from the programmer, like some of the more BSD languages. Python does encapsulate objects as a single namespace but it's a transluscent encapsulation."
From: http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/articles/OOP.shtml