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

Georg Brandl g.brandl at gmx.net
Thu Nov 18 13:37:38 CET 2010

Am 18.11.2010 11:47, schrieb Michael Foord:

On 17/11/2010 21:16, Éric Araujo wrote:

Excluding a builtin name from all sounds like a perfectly sensible idea, so even if it wasn't deliberate, I'd say it qualifies as fortuitous :) But then, a tool that looks into all to find for example what objects to document will miss open. I’d put open in all.

"import *" would then override the builtin open. A good reason not to use "import *" I guess, but also a good reason not to create names that shadow builtins.

Heh. Instead have fun with io.ioopen(), gzip.gzipopen(), webbrowser.webbrowseropen(), etc.? We do have namespace support for a reason.

Georg

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