Daniel Holth wrote:

__all__ is very useful when doing import *, which is frowned upon. As an alternative, allow modules to contain a function called __init__ that defines that module's exported symbols by way of the global statement. By importing modules that are used, but not intended to be exported, inside the __init__ function, programmers avoid cases such as the unintentional 'somemodule.sys' (referring to a module by its non-canonical name) that makes it harder to refactor larger projects.

Before:

__all__ = ['a', 'b'] import sys def a(): pass def b(): pass def c(): pass

After:

def __init__(): global a, b import sys def a(): pass def b(): pass def c(): pass

__init__()

This is already possible and used in modules where you don't want to clutter up the global namespace. Where's the novelty ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, May 07 2011)

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Daniel Holth wrote:

__all__ is very useful when doing import *, which is frowned upon. As an alternative, allow modules to contain a function called __init__ that defines that module's exported symbols by way of the global statement. By importing modules that are used, but not intended to be exported, inside the __init__ function, programmers avoid cases such as the unintentional 'somemodule.sys' (referring to a module by its non-canonical name) that makes it harder to refactor larger projects.

Before:

__all__ = ['a', 'b'] import sys def a(): pass def b(): pass def c(): pass

After:

def __init__(): global a, b import sys def a(): pass def b(): pass def c(): pass

__init__()

This is already possible and used in modules where you don't want to clutter up the global namespace. Where's the novelty ? -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, May 07 2011)

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Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/

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