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 <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