[Python-Dev] Re: Rationale behind removing kwdict from keyword.py? (original) (raw)

Fernando Perez fperez528 at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 28 05:56:25 CEST 2004

Tim Peters wrote:

Note that it's very common in older modules (which keyword.py is) to define the newer all rather than risk breaking code by massive renaming of variables to stick an underscore in front of them.

Fair enough. For a long time I'd gotten used to assuming that the lack of a leading _ was a safe sign of 'publicness' (that's probably not a word :), and didn't really rely too much on all. Lesson learned... (I wouldn't be surprised to find I'm not the only one with this bad habit)

Thanks, I already committed a patch for my stuff anyway, since there's no point in making my users unhappy.

Best regards,

f

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