utility functions within a class?

[Scott David Daniels]

John Salerno wrote:
> Scott David Daniels wrote:
>> John Salerno wrote:
>>> ... But isn't there something about a single leading underscore 
>>> that doesn't import when you use from X import *? Or am I thinking of 
>>> something else? Is that also the double underscore?
>>
>> That has to do with module contents, and is a completely separate issue.
>> If you define a module with a variable name '__all__' which is a list
>> (or tuple) of strings, only module elements with those names will be
>> imported with a "from module import *".  If you fail to define the
>> '__all__' element, all names which do not start with an underscore will
>> be imported.
> 
> Thanks, that's what I was thinking of. So it doesn't apply to the 
> contents within a class, just top-level contents?

Precisely, a "from ... import *" only creates a bunch of names bound to
a module's top-level contents (at the time of execution of the
"from ... import *"), and does not affect anything about those bound
values (except, of course, the refcount).

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-Scott David Daniels
scott.daniels at acm.org