[Python-ideas] Proposal for special name and qualname symbols

[Barry Warsaw]

On Jun 08, 2016, at 09:30 PM, Eric V. Smith wrote:

>SEVEN = public(__LHS__, 7)
>a_bar = public(__LHS__, Bar())

Yes, if we had __LHS__ that's how I'd write it.

>Although this might be a different version of public (or not!).

It would be, because public() wouldn't then need to poke values into the
module globals.  It would just have to return the second argument and put the
first argument in __all__.  Tools like pyflakes would stop complaining too.
Win!

-Barry
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