Why are Python's 'private' methods not actually private?

Why are Python's 'private' methods not actually private?

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Convert list to tuple in Python

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Get exception description and stack trace which caused an exception, all as a string

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How to fix: "UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte"

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Converting dictionary to JSON

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How do I create test and train samples from one dataframe with pandas?

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How to uninstall Python 2.7 on a Mac OS X 10.6.4?

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How can I selectively escape percent (%) in Python strings?

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How to write a Python module/package?

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How to install PIL with pip on Mac OS?

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How to sort a dataFrame in python pandas by two or more columns?

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Delete a dictionary item if the key exists [duplicate]

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urllib and "SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED" Error

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Cannot find module cv2 when using OpenCV

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bs4.FeatureNotFound: Couldn't find a tree builder with the features you requested: lxml. Do you need to install a parser library?

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