On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Nov 8, 2010, at 11:58 AM, Brett Cannon wrote: > >> I think we need to, as a group, decide how to handle undocumented APIs >> that don't have a leading underscore: they get treated just the same >> as the documented APIs, or are they private regardless and thus we can >> change them at our whim? > > To start with, it doesn't hurt for a maintainer to add an __all__ entry and > to only document the parts of the API we think need to be exposed. That way, > we can at least declare the parts that are intended to be public on a > go-forward basis.
This does hurt because anyone who was relying on "import *" to get a name which is now omitted from __all__ is going to upgrade and find their program failing with NameErrors. This is a backwards compatible change and shouldn't happen without a deprecation warning first. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
