On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote:
> The timeit doc describes four public attributes. > The current timeit.__all__ only lists one. > http://bugs.python.org/**issue17414 <http://bugs.python.org/issue17414> > proposes to expand __all__ to include all four: > -__all__ = ["Timer"] > +__all__ = ["Timer", "timeit", "repeat", "default_timer"] > > The effect of the change is > a) help(timit) will mention the three functions as well as the class; > b) IDLE's attribute completion box* will list all four instead just Timer; > c) unknow other users of .__all__ will see the expanded list, for better > or worse. > > Another effect is that existing code that does: from timeit import * May break. The above may not be the recommended best practice in Python, but it's perfectly valid and widely used. Eli
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