On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:33:28PM +0100, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > > Please don't use __all__. At the moment, __all__ is the only way > > to easily tell whether a particular module object really represents > > a package, and the only way to get the list of submodule names. > > But __all__ has to be user-defined, so I don't buy that argument. > Note that the only true way to recognize a package is by looking > for an attribute "__path__" since Python adds this for packages > only. Ehm.... What, exactly, prevents usercode from doing __path__ = "neener, neener" ? In other words, even *that* isn't a true way to recognize a package. You can see what isn't a package, but not what is. -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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