[Python-Dev] Matching all to doc: bugfix or enhancement? (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Fri Mar 15 05:15:08 CET 2013

So it's a new feature, albeit a small one. I do see that it shouldn't be backported, but I don't see any worries about doing it in 3.4. Adding new functions/classes/constants to modules happens all the time, and we never give a second thought to users of import *. :-)

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote: The timeit doc describes four public attributes. The current timeit.all only lists one. http://bugs.python.org/issue17414 proposes to expand all to include all four: -all = ["Timer"] +all = ["Timer", "timeit", "repeat", "defaulttimer"] The effect of the change is a) help(timit) will mention the three functions as well as the class; b) IDLE's attribute completion box* will list all four instead just Timer; c) unknow other users of .all will see the expanded list, for better or worse. Another effect is that existing code that does: from timeit import * May break. The above may not be the recommended best practice in Python, but it's perfectly valid and widely used. Eli

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