July 24, 2025

Python does not offer true OOP encapsulation because it follows a philosophy of trust and flexibility over strict access control, using naming conventions and name mangling instead of enforced private attributes. True OOP encapsulation completely hides internal implementation details and prevents external access to private members, while Python’s approach allows access to any attribute if […]

The __slots__ attribute in Python is a class-level attribute that explicitly declares which instance attributes a class can have, replacing the default dictionary-based storage with a more memory-efficient fixed structure. Memory optimization with __slots__ reduces memory usage by 20-50% and improves attribute access speed by preventing the creation of __dict__ for each instance and restricting