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

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Thu Nov 11 14:23:46 CET 2010

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote: ..

Is it OK to add all to such modules that does not include all names not starting with an underscore?  Is it OK to then remove names that clearly were not intended to be public? Given the rules I suggested, which are basically the same as the one you are saying are already in place, if "import *" exports these names then you shouldn't change that behaviour without going through the deprecation process.

I don't dispute that these are the rules, but my question was whether it is ok to break them in specific cases such as trace.rx_blank. If not, how can we deprecate trace.rx_blank which is a regex constant?

Another specific case is token.main. See <http://bugs.python.org/issue10386>.

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