Maybe classes should have __all__ too, then the people who complain about not being able to declare private class attributes could be pointed at that.
regards Steve Guido van Rossum wrote: > It's not consistent with what dir() of a class or instance does though. > > -1. > > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Raymond Hettinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Should dir(module) use __all__ when defined? >> >> >>> dir(Queue) >> ['Empty', 'Full', 'LifoQueue', 'PriorityQueue', 'Queue', '__all__', >> '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', '_time', >> 'deque', 'heapq'] >> >> >>> Queue.__all__ >> ['Empty', 'Full', 'Queue', 'PriorityQueue', 'LifoQueue'] >> >> I like the second one better. >> >> >> Raymond >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-Dev mailing list >> Python-Dev@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev >> Unsubscribe: >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/guido%40python.org >> > > > -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
