[Python-Dev] Breaking undocumented API
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Mon Nov 8 23:59:40 CET 2010
On 11/8/2010 4:36 PM, Ron Adam wrote:
> My understanding is that anything with an actual docstring is part of
> the public API. Any thing with a leading underscore is private.
When the trace module was written, the rule seems to have been more
like: docs (but no docstrings) for public API, docstrings (but no doc
mention) for private stuff. Eli and I fixed the first part.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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