[Python-Dev] Breaking undocumented API

[Michael Foord]

On 11/11/2010 15:17, Łukasz Langa wrote:
> Am 11.11.2010 16:05, schrieb Barry Warsaw:
>> Agreed, though I wouldn't *remove* __all__'s, I would establish a 
>> convention
>> where they can be generated programmatically.  Keeping __all__ in 
>> sync with
>> the code is a PITA.  It screams for automation.
>
> You mean runtime automation, e.g. creating __all__ on the fly omitting 
> underscored names?
>
Writing code to generate a __all__ that duplicates the default behaviour 
seems redundant to me.

Michael

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