[Python-Dev] dir() and __all__

[Guido van Rossum]

It's not consistent with what dir() of a class or instance does though.

-1.

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:30 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> Should dir(module) use __all__ when defined?
>
>  >>> dir(Queue)
>  ['Empty', 'Full', 'LifoQueue', 'PriorityQueue', 'Queue', '__all__', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__', '__name__', '__package__', '_time', 'deque', 'heapq']
>
>  >>> Queue.__all__
>  ['Empty', 'Full', 'Queue', 'PriorityQueue', 'LifoQueue']
>
>  I like the second one better.
>
>
>  Raymond
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