On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 11:51 PM Anders Hovmöller <bo...@killingar.net>
wrote:

>
>
> > On 26 Jul 2019, at 22:53, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote:
> >
> > Serhiy proposed a relatively minor change to the behavior of `import *`
> in the absence of __all__. This sounds like an idea we could try though we
> should have a look at the implications for various well-known packages. It
> is also a relatively minor problem that he's trying to solve, so it's not
> worth breaking lots of stuff over. (We can just add an __all__ to Tkinter
> that contains the desired list.)
> >
> > Anders then stole Serhiy's thread to advocate fora much more radical
> idea. That's not good netiquette. That idea is going to break a lot more
> code than Serhiy's. But my key message here is to Anders: stay on topic or
> start a new thread. You're welcome to discuss your idea in a separate
> thread. But don't steal existing threads.
>
> I respectfully disagree. Sure I advocated for a more radical idea, but one
> that solves the original problem and also other problems.


But the fact that you tried to solve "other problems" means you changed the
scope of the discussion in this thread.


> That doesn't seem like stealing a thread to me but offering another
> perspective on the problem at hand. Taking a step back and getting a bigger
> picture seems like a good thing. We're just throwing ideas around after
> all.
>

Please start a separate thread if you want to discuss the much broader
topic of disallowing exporting imported modules as this thread is
specifically around `import *`.
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