[Python-Dev] Tweaking PEP 8 guidelines for use of leading underscores (original) (raw)

Richard Oudkerk shibturn at gmail.com
Tue Jul 16 12:28:28 CEST 2013

On 16/07/2013 6:44am, Nick Coghlan wrote:

Clarifying what constitutes an internal interface in a way that doesn't require renaming anything is a necessary prerequisite for bundling or bootstrapping the pip CLI in Python 3.4 (as pip exposes its internal implemetnation API as "import pip" rather than "import pip" and renaming it would lead to a lot of pointless code churn). Without that concern, the topic never would have come up.

BTW, how does the use of all effect things? Somewhere I got the idea that if a module uses all then anything not listed is internal. I take it that is wrong?

-- Richard

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