Magic words

Bengt Richter bokr at oz.net
Mon Apr 15 13:35:25 EDT 2002


On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:35:13 +0000 (UTC), Duncan Booth <duncan at NOSPAMrcp.co.uk> wrote:

>Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org> wrote in
>news:1104_1018820620 at news.dsl-only.net: 
>
>>> Seo Sanghyeon || Sat 13 Apr 2002 05:49:17a:
>>> > Thank you very much for pointers, but I can think of something not
>>> > listed there. For example, __all__ for "from module import *",
>>> > pickle protocols, __new__ for subclassing from a type and so on. Is
>>> > there a complete (or near-complete) list?
>>> ...
>> 
>> You could also take this lack of a list as a charter for your
>> collecting _all_ (not __all__) such names, and creating a document for
>> others who, like you want to know the list of such names.  This could
>> include package references if you so desire (others will complain if
>> you leave something out, providing you with more fodder for your
>> document). 
>> 
>
>To get you started, here is a list built by grepping over the Python 
>sources. Some of the names are probably red herrings, and there are 
>probably some used by libraries not in this list, but it should give you a 
>start:
>
[... grepped sorted list ...]

Cool. Do you feel motivated to do the same on the .../doc/* tree and
then do a diff? ;-)

Regards,
Bengt Richter



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