[Python-Dev] Re: Re: Rationale behind removing kwdict from keyword.py?

Fernando Perez fperez528 at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 28 07:10:40 CEST 2004


Skip Montanaro wrote:

> 
>     Bob> This sounds like a bug in pydoc.  If __all__ is defined, help
>     Bob> should probably only be given for items in it (public API).
> 
> Funny you should mention that:
> 
>     revision 1.92
>     date: 2004/06/11 04:46:12;  author: montanaro;  state: Exp;  lines: +22 -9
>     Respect a module's __all__ attribute.  Closes #969938.
> 
> and the corresponding output since then for the keyword module looks like:
[...]

Aha!  Maybe I'm not a complete idiot after all :)

Glad to see this was fixed.  It's always a joy to see the time machine in
action, even when operated by someone other than Guido.

Best,

f



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