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Author barry
Recipients barry, berker.peksag, eryksun, ethan.furman, jayvdb, leewz, martin.panter, r.david.murray, rhettinger
Date 2016-05-23.00:50:39
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On May 22, 2016, at 11:30 PM, Martin Panter wrote:

>Here are two examples where publicly-documented module attributes are
>intentionally omitted from __all__:
>
>* Issue 26234: typing.re and typing.io
>* Issue 23439: HTTP status codes like http.client.NOT_FOUND

Wild.

>Despite these, I think @public is a reasonable name. But I may be biased,
>because I personally think everything should be included in
>__all__. Otherwise pydoc does not pick it up.

I think it's pretty reasonable, and pretty well-established despite some
exceptions, that __all__ names a module's public symbols.
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