On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:32:57 +0200, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 11:51:18 -0400 > Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> wrote: > > On Jul 29, 2011, at 05:25 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > > > > >> test.support *is* part of the stdlib. > > > > > >We have lots of internal APIs which are not documented, though. > > >And test.support *is* for internal use. > > > > The solution then is to rename test.support to test._support to make it > > clear > > it's an internal implementation detail. Then you can remove the entire > > section from the stdlib docs and just document it in the code. > > Ideally so. Practically, it's a lot of churn and additional pain > merging 3.2 bugfixes into default. The lack of an underscore doesn't > always mean the API is public, because it hasn't always worked like > this (we have many private APIs without an underscore).
I'm not sure it makes merging more difficult. I haven't had any problems with email test merges even though I moved (i.e. renamed) the test directory. -- R. David Murray http://www.bitdance.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
