Sandworth Meb wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to be able to have something like: > A class with a private method "jim" which can be called on objects of > the class, when self is the class. > [snip] > Kam.call_private #exception: called private method > > Since this doesn't work, is something like this possible? Or is this > sort of thing supposed to be bad design? It seems natural enough to me. It seems to me like what you're looking for is "protected", not private Daniel