leewz added the comment:

> The fact that ChainMap pollutes namespace when doing star import ("from 
> string import *"), however, is unfortunate.

This is what I meant by "this kind of thing". (IPython also ignores underscored 
names for autocomplete suggestions, unless you start with an underscore. 
IPython doesn't respect `__all__` by default, but that's a report for IPython's 
tracker.)


> This case is the opposite: we want to limit the exported names.

(Well, not exactly the opposite. Same purpose.)

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