[Python-Dev] getitem & slice question (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 10:44:57 -0500

Why does that matter? calendar.all doesn't export localizedname or any of the gimmicks built from it, so it's purely an internal issue, and the internals never need slices here (granted that dayname etc are poorly named for module privates -- or perhaps the all list and the docs are in error).

I agree with Skip that these are public enough to make sure common uses will continue to work, despite their current lack of documentation. After all someone did report a bug -- I'm sure that was because they had real code using this which broke, not because they happened to have inspected the code and noticed it was buggy. :-)

I have to say that I still think that adding all to every module under the sun was a mistake.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)