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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