Encapsulation not initialized properly?

Question

I was just playing around to know more about encapsulation and found out that we cannot print out values that has been encapsulated, we have to define a seperate method that prints the value out, but here in my code i tried to print out an attribute of my class and it worked, so is there a mistake in my encapsulation?

code :

class Time:
    timethytom = 'Best'

    def __init__(self, hours, minutes):
        self.__hours = hours
        self.__minutes = minutes

    def setTime(self,hour,minute):
        self.__hours = hour
        self.__minutes = minute

    def getTime(self):
        print(f'Time is {self.__hours}hr {self.__minutes}min')

    def addTime(self, hour1, hour2, minute1, minute2):
        print(f'{hour1+hour2} hours and {minute1+minute2} minutes')


time1 = Time(10, 20)

time1.setTime(20,5)
time1.hours = 55
time1.getTime()

print(time1.hours)

Thanks in advance :)

Answer 1

In Python, you can create a public variables in the class from out of the class, something like this:

class xyz:
  pass

x = xyz()
x.y=10
print(x.y) #This will print 10

When you wrote this line time1.hours = 55, actually you have created a variable named hours in the object time1 which is not the same as the variable __hours defined in the class.