Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > There was a discussion on python-dev about naming conventions in the > standard library. There was no clear consensus that everything > non-public should start with an underscore. Several developers thought > that merely being undocumented or not present in __all__ was > sufficient (evidently including Guido at the point he implemented > this).
Underscoring makes it much clearer, though, that people shouldn't rely on it. At this point, GCM is only used in copies of the contextlib source code and our own test_with, so we can still rename it. (http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=fr&sa=N&q=GeneratorContextManager ) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue10859> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
