Ezio Melotti <ezio.melo...@gmail.com> added the comment:

This is technically backward incompatible, so if we define an __all__ with most 
of these names, we are officially making them public, if we leave them out, 
from urllib.request import * will break for someone.
You could argue that import * is discouraged though.

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