Raymond Hettinger added the comment: I think change this would be risky and could break code that uses dir() to actually know what is in a module.
IIRC, this was discussed when __all__ was introduced. I believe it was decided that __all__ would affect from-imports and help() but not dir(). This decision has been in place for a long time now and I would expect that people (and tools) have come to rely on the current behavior. ---------- nosy: +brett.cannon, rhettinger _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue31503> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
