[TIP] including (or not) tests within your package

[Ben Finney]

Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> writes:

> On Aug 10, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> >Andrew Bennetts <andrew at bemusement.org> writes:
> >> Surely you don't consider every importable name to be part of the
> >> public interface for a package?
> >
> >Every importable name that isn't marked with a leading-underscore
> >name, yes. That's what that distinction is for, after all.
>
> I think you meant "after __all__".

Bdom-tssh.

> __all__ directly controls what names get imported via from-import-*
> but it's a very strong indicator about what names are intended as part
> of the public interface.

Rather onerous to keep updating that list every time the API changes,
though. The conventions of PEP 8 are much easier to follow, and work by
default.

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Ben Finney
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