On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 11:11 Gregory P. Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> One obvious now in hindsight question: Why are any of these APIs even
> public? They all deserve underscore prefixed names to highlight their
> private-ness and potential instability.
>

Because they are still useful when manipulating or introspecting Python
code. I think stable and public are orthogonal axes.
-- 
--Guido (mobile)
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