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Author pitrou
Recipients georg.brandl, michael.foord, ncoghlan, pitrou
Date 2011-01-07.19:15:36
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> There was a discussion on python-dev about naming conventions in the
> standard library. There was no clear consensus that everything
> non-public should start with an underscore. Several developers thought
> that merely being undocumented or not present in __all__ was
> sufficient (evidently including Guido at the point he implemented
> this).

Underscoring makes it much clearer, though, that people shouldn't rely
on it.
At this point, GCM is only used in copies of the contextlib source code
and our own test_with, so we can still rename it.
(http://www.google.com/codesearch?hl=fr&sa=N&q=GeneratorContextManager )
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Date User Action Args
2011-01-07 19:15:43pitrousetrecipients: + pitrou, georg.brandl, ncoghlan, michael.foord
2011-01-07 19:15:36pitroulinkissue10859 messages
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