"Friend"ing classes in python

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Is there any way to make certain variables in classes "private" (or whatever self.__var really is) but be accessible to another class, like friends in c++, except in python? I do not want the variables in either class being messed with. Nor do I want to copy the entire code over and convert it for the second class.

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there is no option of friend function in python. you have an option to define a protected variable by using a single underscore, but in python protected variable is also accessed by the main function, but this is not exactly the definition of a protected variable just have a look.

class Student:
    _schoolName = 'XYZ School' # protected class attribute
    
    def __init__(self, name, age):
        self._name=name  # protected instance attribute
        self._age=age # protected instance attribute

std = Student("Swati", 25)
std._name
#answer is ->'Swati'
std._name = 'Dipa'
std._name
#answer is ->'Dipa'
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