[Python-Dev] PEP 294: Type Names in the types Module

[Aahz]

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002, Peter Funk wrote:
>
> Unfortunately this will not help for software, which has already been
> written and is in production.  If in 2004 certain Python programs
> written in 2000 or earlier would start raising ImportError exceptions
> on 'from types import *' after upgrading to a new system which may come
> with the latest version of Python, this will certainly cause damage.

This can be solved by a combination of changing the documentation and
using __all__ (which I think is in part precisely the point of creating
__all__).  (To save people time, __all__ controls what names import *
uses; I think it was introduced in Python 2.1, but I'm not sure.)
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