> However, Python does not have a real privacy model.

> This is unsettling if you’re coming from a Java or C/C++ world and are expecting access modifiers

It's unsettling to a lot of people, but so what? I still don't see a solid use case for where member access (not "privacy") is a good idea. Python is one of the only languages to get access modifiers right (convention), imo and I don't even like Python.

You could implement some "privacy" with a lambda closure (which gets increasingly complex), but that's one more technique that lambdas are ill-suited for.