[Python-Dev] Re: __all__ for pickle

Tim Peters tim.one@home.com
Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:44:06 -0500


[Skip Montanaro]
> In deciding what to include in __all__ up to this point I have only had
> my personal experience with the modules and the documentation to help
> me decide what to include.  My initial assumption was that undocumented
> module-level constants were not to be exported.

And it's been a very educational exercise!  Thank you for pursuing it.  The
fact is we often don't know what authors intended to export, and it's Good
to try to make that explicit.

I'm still not sure I've got any use for __all__, though <wink>.

sure-"a-problem"-has-been-identified-but-not-sure-the-solution-
    has-been-ly y'rs  - tim