[Python-3000] Hiding _abcoll from introspection (e.g. help() and cie.) (original) (raw)
Alexandre Vassalotti alexandre at peadrop.com
Sun Apr 27 02:37:02 CEST 2008
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Although I am not totally convinced that it would make harder to find to source or that it could confuse other introspection tools, I don't feel that something worth arguing about. So, I guess that pretty much kill the idea.
Thanks, -- Alexandre
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
I'm not in favor of lying regarding the origin of objects; it makes it harder to find the source and can confuse other introspection tools. This is an inherent limitation of help(), and not one I'm inclined to lose sleep over.
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:21 PM, Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre at peadrop.com> wrote: > Since abcoll shouldn't be used directly, would changing its name > module attribute to 'collections' be justified? This would hide the > module from appearing in the subclasses listing of help(). -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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