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Paul Rudin wrote:
> Gregory Ewing <> writes:
>
>>You can clean up dir() by defining __all__ as a list of
>>names that you want to officially export.
>
> I'm not sure that's necessarily a good idea... when you're trying to figure
> out why something behaves in a certain way you want to check for the
> presence of methods with special names.

If you need to find out what's really there, you can always
look at module.__dict__.keys().

(BTW, there are no function names that have a special meaning
in a module dict -- a module is not like a class.)

--
Greg

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 19:30:21 +1300, Gregory Ewing wrote:

> (BTW, there are no function names that have a special meaning in a
> module dict -- a module is not like a class.)

Pity... it would be nice to have a __main__() function, or perhaps
main(), that was automatically called when you call the module like a
script.

There are, however, a few special module attributes -- they just aren't
functions. __doc__, __name__, __file__ and __package__ come to mind.


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Steven