Martin Panter added the comment: I agree that the namespace pollution is a valid bug. It affects “from string import *” and dir(string). Normally, modules either define __all__ listing their exported names, or they are really careful to define non-exported names beginning with underscores (_). Judging by the line “import re as _re”, somebody once tried to use the second technique for the “string” module.
Silent Ghost: perhaps you were thinking of Issue 23883 (adding to __all__ in various modules). This case is the opposite: we want to limit the exported names. ---------- nosy: +martin.panter _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26809> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
