Frog Makes Methods Private

Frog put an underscore in front of the method names. "There," he said, "Now we will not use private methods." "But we can still use them," said Toad. "That is true," said Frog.

Frog gives Toad a box and explains that adding an underscore before method names means they are private. Toad points out that the methods can still be used, exposing the joke about Python’s convention-based privacy and the difference between discouraging access and truly preventing it.

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