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

Barry Warsaw barry at python.org
Tue Jul 16 17:19:17 CEST 2013

On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:28 AM, Richard Oudkerk wrote:

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?

Purely technically, all is there to affect how from-import-* works. I personally think it's a good idea to include all your public names, and none of your non-public names, in all, but it's not always easy to keep up-to-date. pyflakes has the nice benefit of complaining when something is named in all that doesn't exist in the module, but that's only one part of the keeping-things-up-to-date problem.

-Barry

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