Why not just __exclude__ or __excluding__? On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 2:57 PM George Harding < george.winton.hard...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > Python has an __all__ variable that can be defined in a module to restrict > which members of the module should be included in a call `from foo import > *`. However specifying which members of the module should be excluded is > more difficult. There are three workarounds that I see: > > 1) Defining __all__ to specify most of the members of the module, except > the few that should be excluded. > > 2) Naming members to be excluded with a leading underscore. e.g. as done > here in ctypes: > https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/ctypes/__init__.py#L3 > > 3) Manually deleting members from the module. e.g. as done here in numpy: > https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/numpy/core/__init__.py#L52 > > I think it might be cleaner to also allow an __exclude_all__ variable > which will exclude some members from being imported. > > If both were defined I would imagine __exclude_all__ being applied second. > > Best, > > George Harding > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/YMP7WQ3RI4BW3HUID6JFIOBVAARFA3WL/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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