Message138191
"Public name" is a term that describes a convention, not anything enforced by the interpreter. Names starting with underscores typically aren't public either (unless documented otherwise), but that has no effect on the ability to retrieve them as attributes. A glossary entry defining the term may be worthwhile (perhaps with a reference to pydoc.visiblename())
Dirs mentioned in .pkg files *should* be added to "the path". It's just that the path in question is pkg.__path__, not sys.path. That could probably be made clearer, but the docs aren't wrong as they stand. |
|
Date |
User |
Action |
Args |
2011-06-11 23:53:24 | ncoghlan | set | recipients:
+ ncoghlan, brett.cannon, pje, eric.araujo, docs@python, Greg.Slodkowicz, gwideman |
2011-06-11 23:53:24 | ncoghlan | set | messageid: <1307836404.85.0.931756146689.issue11553@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2011-06-11 23:53:24 | ncoghlan | link | issue11553 messages |
2011-06-11 23:53:24 | ncoghlan | create | |
|