[Python-ideas] Importing public symbols and simultainiously privatizing them, is too noisy

[Rick Johnson]

On Wednesday, March 16, 2016 at 8:54:06 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:

> ... and then you decide, hey, let's just define __all__ and not worry 
> about adorning all those names with underscores, because the 
> definition of public vs private can be independent of the symbols 
> themselves. 
>

I avoid  __all__ like the plague. Too easy for it to get out of sync with 
the API when i forget to add a new symbol. 
  
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