Am 18.11.2010 11:47, schrieb Michael Foord: > On 17/11/2010 21:16, Éric Araujo wrote: >>> Excluding a builtin name from __all__ sounds like a perfectly sensible >>> idea, so even if it wasn't deliberate, I'd say it qualifies as >>> fortuitous :) >> But then, a tool that looks into __all__ to find for example what >> objects to document will miss open. I’d put open in __all__. >> > > "import *" would then override the builtin open. A good reason not to > use "import *" I guess, but also a good reason not to create names that > shadow builtins.
Heh. Instead have fun with io.ioopen(), gzip.gzipopen(), webbrowser.webbrowseropen(), etc.? We do have namespace support for a reason. Georg _______________________________________________ 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
