So it's a new feature, albeit a small one. I do see that it shouldn't be backported, but I don't see any worries about doing it in 3.4. Adding new functions/classes/constants to modules happens all the time, and we never give a second thought to users of import *. :-) On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
The timeit doc describes four public attributes. The current timeit.__all__ only lists one. http://bugs.python.org/issue17414 proposes to expand __all__ to include all four: -__all__ = ["Timer"] +__all__ = ["Timer", "timeit", "repeat", "default_timer"]
The effect of the change is a) help(timit) will mention the three functions as well as the class; b) IDLE's attribute completion box* will list all four instead just Timer; c) unknow other users of .__all__ will see the expanded list, for better or worse.
Another effect is that existing code that does:
from timeit import *
May break. The above may not be the recommended best practice in Python, but it's perfectly valid and widely used.
Eli
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