Question

Private members of a class cannot be accessed.

(a) True

(b) False

This question was addressed to me by my college professor while I was bunking the class.

Asked question is from Encapsulation topic in section Classes and Objects, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Encapsulation and Exception Handling of Python

Answer 1

Correct option is (b) False

Easiest explanation - Private members of a class are accessible if written as follows: obj._Classname__privatemember. Such renaming of identifiers is called as name mangling.