Scott David Daniels wrote: > John Salerno wrote: >> Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: >>> ... Single underscores are a convention/signal to the programmer that >>> "this method/attribute" is considered "private" and should only be used >>> by other methods within the class that defined it. The language does no >>> enforcement of usage.... >> >> I see. But isn't there something about a single leading underscore >> that doesn't import when you use from X import *? Or am I thinking of >> something else? Is that also the double underscore? > > That has to do with module contents, and is a completely separate issue. > If you define a module with a variable name '__all__' which is a list > (or tuple) of strings, only module elements with those names will be > imported with a "from module import *". If you fail to define the > '__all__' element, all names which do not start with an underscore will > be imported. > > --Scott David Daniels > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks, that's what I was thinking of. So it doesn't apply to the contents within a class, just top-level contents? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
