can anyone explain why it's a good idea to have totally incomprehensible stuff like
__all__ = locals().keys() for _i in range(len(__all__)-1,-1,-1): if __all__[_i][0] == "_": del __all__[_i] del _i
in my code?
Ask Skip. :-) This doesn't exclude anything that would be included in import* by default, so I'm not sure I see the point either. As for clarity, it would've been nice if there was a comment. If it is decided that it's a good idea to have __all__ even when it doesn't add any new information (I'm not so sure), here's a cleaner way to spell it, which also gets the names in alphabetical order: # Set __all__ to the list of global names not starting with underscore: __all__ = filter(lambda s: s[0]!='_', dir()) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)