> On 26 Jul 2019, at 22:53, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
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> Serhiy proposed a relatively minor change to the behavior of `import *` in the absence of __all__. This sounds like an idea we could try though we should have a look at the implications for various well-known packages. It is also a relatively minor problem that he's trying to solve, so it's not worth breaking lots of stuff over. (We can just add an __all__ to Tkinter that contains the desired list.)
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> Anders then stole Serhiy's thread to advocate fora much more radical idea. That's not good netiquette. That idea is going to break a lot more code than Serhiy's. But my key message here is to Anders: stay on topic or start a new thread. You're welcome to discuss your idea in a separate thread. But don't steal existing threads.

I respectfully disagree. Sure I advocated for a more radical idea, but one that solves the original problem and also other problems.

That doesn't seem like stealing a thread to me but offering another perspective on the problem at hand. Taking a step back and getting a bigger picture seems like a good thing. We're just throwing ideas around after all.