2.1 strangness

[Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk]

Thu, 31 May 2001 19:33:02 +0100, Robin Becker <robin at jessikat.fsnet.co.uk> pisze:

> thanks; I'm still a bit puzzled as to the exact semantics. It
> just looks wrong. Is __all__ the only way to get things into the *
> version of import?

No: you can omit __all__ and get everything the module defined in its
global namespace (including e.g. names of modules imported by it).
__all__ is used to make this set smaller in case "default = everything"
is not appropriate. (Here it was too small by accident.)

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