[Python-Dev] Breaking undocumented API

[Georg Brandl]

Am 17.11.2010 22:39, schrieb 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.

Seeing that "import *" is discouraged anywhere I look, it might just not
be as important anymore.

BTW, "open" is listed in __all__ for lots of modules: io, gzip, dbm...
and even "ancient" ones like aifc.

cheers,
Georg