Nick Coghlan added the comment: As far the implementation goes, since the `__dir__` overload support in the `dir()` builtin ignores instance dictionaries, this could be implemented in module.__dir__ (or object.__dir__) rather than directly in the builtin.
Alternatively, it could use a different attribute name rather than having `__dir__` be a list of strings on instances, and a protocol method on classes. If we went with a different name, then I think `__public__` would be a reasonable option, since the purpose of the attribute is to make it easy to programmatically distinguish public attributes from non-public ones (independently of the established leading underscore convention, which doesn't work well for transitive module references). ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue31503> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
