Methods and Functions Encapsulation

[antunesleo]

Great Initiative folks. Do you have any plans to expand this library to also enforce encapsulation in methods and functions?

[kitchoi]

It was one of the ideas mentioned when the project was first introduced to peers. At the moments there are no plans except an acknowledgment that it would be a challenging task to do so statically. Static checking is a requirement here to avoid any runtime penalty, which could be a blocker to adoptions.
Proposals and/or pull requests would be very welcome!

[antunesleo]

Totally agree. I've never implemented any kind of text/code static checker before, but is something that looks very interesting to study. Do you have any idea/tip on how this can be done?

[kitchoi]

I haven't done a thorough search for solutions. Just an idea: may be to take a look at using Jedi API https://jedi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/docs/api.html#jedi.Script to infer the scope context for a particular name reference, then go from there to determine whether a method/function whose name has a preceding underscore belongs to the same module.