[Python-Dev] Breaking undocumented API

[Fred Drake]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 4:22 PM, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote:
> So it comes down again to what we'd like __all__ to mean foremost:
> public API, or just a list for "import *"?

It is and has been since its inception *the* list for "import *".

Any additional meaning will have to accommodate that usage as well.


  -Fred

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