[Python-Dev] okay to remove argparse.__all__?

Steven Bethard steven.bethard at gmail.com
Mon Nov 1 15:48:48 CET 2010


I think the easiest and most sensible way to address
http://bugs.python.org/issue9353 is to simply remove the __all__
definition from argparse - everything that doesn't start with an
underscore in the module is already meant to be exposed.

But then I wonder - is __all__ considered part of the public API of a
module? Or is it okay to just remove it and assume that no one should
have been accessing it directly anyway?

Steve
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