On 7/16/2013 9:39 AM, R. David Murray wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jul 2013 23:19:21 +1000, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
For example, pkgutil includes classes with single-underscore methods, which I take as
private. It also has a function simplegeneric, which is undocumented and not listed in
__all__. In in the absence of even a comment saying "Don't use this", I take it
as an oversight, not policy that simplegeneric is private.
I think you'd be wrong about that, though. simplegeneric should really be
treated as private. I'm speaking here not about the general principle of
the thing, but about my understanding of simplegeneric's specific history.
I think Steven (valid) point is "Why not, then, say it is internal
either in docs or name?"-- which in this case would be in the docs.
--
Terry Jan Reedy
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