July 16, 2013
3:19 p.m.
On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:28 AM, Richard Oudkerk wrote:
BTW, how does the use of __all__ effect things? Somewhere I got the idea that if a module uses __all__ then anything not listed is internal. I take it that is wrong?
Purely technically, __all__ is there to affect how from-import-* works. I personally think it's a good idea to include all your public names, and none of your non-public names, in __all__, but it's not always easy to keep up-to-date. pyflakes has the nice benefit of complaining when something is named in __all__ that doesn't exist in the module, but that's only one part of the keeping-things-up-to-date problem. -Barry