Re: all attribute: bug and proposal

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Subject	Re: __all__ attribute: bug and proposal
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On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:55 AM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
> On 2016-06-28 01:32, Chris Angelico wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> If you're primarily worried about classes and functions, here's a neat
>> trick you can use:
>>
>> __all__ = []
>> def all(thing):
>>     __all__.append(thing.__name__)
>>     return thing
>>
> Err... won't that hide the 'all' builtin?
>

Yep. So? If you're not using it *at top level*, it's not a problem. I
clean up the namespace at the end, so if you use it inside a function,
it'll still be available. And most of my scripts don't use 'all'
anyway... it's no worse than using 'id' for a database ID.

ChrisA

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__all__ attribute: bug and proposal Pavel S <pavel@schon.cz> - 2016-06-27 13:56 -0700
  Re: __all__ attribute: bug and proposal Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-06-28 07:32 +1000
    Re: __all__ attribute: bug and proposal Pavel S <pavel@schon.cz> - 2016-06-27 15:29 -0700
      Re: __all__ attribute: bug and proposal Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-06-28 08:41 +1000
      Re: __all__ attribute: bug and proposal Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2016-06-27 22:46 -0400
        Re: __all__ attribute: bug and proposal Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-28 13:24 +1000
  Re: __all__ attribute: bug and proposal Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-27 20:25 -0400
  Re: __all__ attribute: bug and proposal Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-06-28 10:32 +1000
  Re: __all__ attribute: bug and proposal MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2016-06-28 02:55 +0100
  Re: __all__ attribute: bug and proposal Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2016-06-28 11:56 +1000
  Re: __all__ attribute: bug and proposal Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-06-28 12:20 +1000
  Re: __all__ attribute: bug and proposal Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> - 2016-06-27 22:27 -0400
  Re: __all__ attribute: bug and proposal Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pylist@gmail.com> - 2016-06-27 23:31 -0500
  Re: __all__ attribute: bug and proposal Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2016-06-28 08:29 -0700

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