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

[Michael Foord]

On 01/11/2010 14:48, Steven Bethard wrote:
> 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?

Isn't it better to add the missing elements - what is the problem with 
that approach?

Not defining __all__ will mean that "from argparse import *" will also 
export all the modules you import (copy, os, re, sys, textwrap).

All the best,

Michael


> Steve


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