[New-bugs-announce] [issue24876] distutils.errors not wildcard-import-safe

[Jakub Wilk]

New submission from Jakub Wilk:

Docstring of the distutils.errors module reads:

This module is safe to use in "from ... import *" mode; it only exports
symbols whose names start with "Distutils" and end with "Error".

But in reality, the module exports also names that don't start with "Distutils":

>>> ns = {}
>>> exec('from distutils.errors import *', {}, ns)
>>> [k for k in ns.keys() if not k.startswith('Distutils')]
['LibError', 'UnknownFileError', 'LinkError', 'CompileError', 'CCompilerError', 'PreprocessError']

----------
components: Distutils
messages: 248680
nosy: dstufft, eric.araujo, jwilk
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: distutils.errors not wildcard-import-safe

_______________________________________
Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org>
<http://bugs.python.org/issue24876>
_______________________________________