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

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Nov 16 20:08:18 CET 2010

On 11/16/2010 10:16 AM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:

What this thread has shown is that there is no consensus on what public names are and what rules should be followed when changing names that can be imported from a module.

Nor is their any consensus on the use of all in the stdlib, with opinion ranging from never to sometimes to always.

I do not have any opinions on the particular solution adopted, but appreciate your persistence in pushing to some solution. It would be nice to add 'Cleanly separated public and private APIs' to the list of 3.x features.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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