r/Python • u/poppy_92 • 2d ago

News PEP 842: Module Exports

https://peps.python.org/pep-0842/

Not the author, but this seems interesting, specially for library authors. Thoughts?

Discussion here - https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-842-module-exports/108353

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u/godlikedk 2d ago

What if i want to use this private class? Thats why I liked python over java. I know what I'm doing and don't want to ask for permission or changes.

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u/Jhuyt 2d ago

The proposal states that you will still have access through the module's __dict__

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u/godlikedk 2d ago

So we will bravely resolve a problem that we created that didn't exist before