>>>>> "SM" == Skip Montanaro <skip@mojam.com> writes:
Fredrik> can anyone explain why it's a good idea to have totally
Fredrik> incomprehensible stuff like
Fredrik> __all__ = locals().keys() for _i in
Fredrik> range(len(__all__)-1,-1,-1): if __all__[_i][0] == "_": del
Fredrik> __all__[_i] del _i
Fredrik> in my code?
SM> Please don't shoot the messenger... ;-)
SM> In modules that looked to me to contain nothing by constants, I
SM> used the above technique to simply load all the modules symbols
SM> into __all__, then delete any that began with an underscore. If
SM> there is no reason to have an __all__ list for such modules,
SM> feel free to remove the code, just remember to also delete the
SM> check_all() call in Lib/test/test___all__.py.
If __all__ is needed (still not sure what it's for :-), wouldn't the
following one-liner be clearer:
__all__ = [name for name in locals.keys() if not name.startswith('_')]
Jeremy
RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo
HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4