under naming

[Robert Kern]

David Bear wrote:
> I must have missed reading something important about naming conventions.
> 
> I have found that if I have a python module where I have an identifier named
> with a beginning underscore that I cannot use from module import * to make
> that name available in another module.
> 
> for example,
> module A
> 
> _myvar = 'a local var'
> 
> module B
> from A import *
> 
> _myvar -- is not available.
> 
> Is this in a pep somewhere ?

No; this has been a feature since before the time of PEPs. However, it is 
documented here:

   http://docs.python.org/ref/import.html

-- 
Robert Kern

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
   -- Umberto Eco