[Python-Dev] Breaking undocumented API (original) (raw)

Raymond Hettinger raymond.hettinger at gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 20:33:55 CET 2010

On Nov 10, 2010, at 5:47 AM, Michael Foord wrote:

So it is obvious that we don't have a clearly stated policy for what defines the public API of standard library modules. How about making this explicit (either pep 8 or our developer docs):

I believe the point of Guido's email was that it is a situation dependent judgment call and not readily boiled down to a set of rules for PEP 8.

Raymond

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