public and private members of the module

[Lev Elblert]

Acording to documentation the are 2 ways to "hide" functions, data
inside the module:

1. __all__ list
2. starting "hiden" names with underscore.

None of these methods does not work:

############################################
#File: foo.py
import sys
__all__ = ['B']
def A():
print "In A"
def B():
print "In B"
def _C():
print "In _C"
############################################
#File: a.py
import foo
print dir(foo)
foo.A()
foo.B()
foo._C()

Running a.py produces this output:

['A', 'B', '_C', '__all__', '__builtins__', '__doc__', '__file__',
'__name__', 'sys']
In A
In B
In _C

Can somebody explain this?

I'm working on Windows Python 2.3
Thanks in advance

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On 23 Jun 2004 21:45:07 -0700, el*******@hotmail.com (Lev Elblert)
declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:

Acording to documentation the are 2 ways to "hide" functions, data
inside the module:

1. __all__ list
2. starting "hiden" names with underscore.

None of these methods does not work:
Forgive me, but your double negative phrase is equal to "all of
these methods do work" <G>

And, they probably do... What you missed is that the "hide" only
applies to the use of

from module import *

The * will only pick up those in the __all__ list, or in on
__all__ then those not beginning with _

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[Dennis Lee Bieber]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 05:07:05 GMT, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wl*****@ix.netcom.com> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:

The * will only pick up those in the __all__ list, or in on
Pardon -- "in on" is supposed to be "if no"
__all__ then those not beginning with _

Obviously it was time for me to go to bed...

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