On Nov 11, 2010, at 12:41 AM, Alexander Belopolsky 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?
I would say in general, yes. It's a good small modernization and stdlib improvement. However, this shouldn't be done as a bug fix to a stable release, and care must be taken to consider backward compatibility. IOW, if you really think it's a name that is not used publicly, or is usually only imported explicitly, then I think it's fine leaving it out of __all__. It's not a difficult change to work around. -Barry
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