On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzy...@voidspace.org.uk> wrote: .. >> Is it OK to add __all__ to such modules that does not include all >> names not starting with an underscore? Is it OK to then remove names >> that clearly were not intended to be public? > > Given the rules I suggested, which are basically the same as the one *you* > are saying are already in place, if "import *" exports these names then you > shouldn't change that behaviour without going through the deprecation > process.
I don't dispute that these are *the* rules, but my question was whether it is ok to break them in specific cases such as trace.rx_blank. If not, how can we deprecate trace.rx_blank which is a regex constant? Another specific case is token.main. See <http://bugs.python.org/issue10386>. _______________________________________________ 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
