On Jan 09, 2017, at 11:42 AM, Steve Holden wrote: >So I thought it would be useful to get input from current devs about the >value of this practice, since to me it seems somewhat anti-pythonic. What >advantages does it confer?
It just means you can't accidentally import it with a from-import-* since those ignore underscored names by default. (But then if you use __all__'s it won't happen anyway because you'll never put 'os' in __all__.) (Aside from the fact that from-import-* is usually bad form, and the problem with __all__ <wink> [1].) Cheers, -Barry [1] http://public.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#the-problem _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
