Only Python: Breaking a four year hiatus to talk about the export keyword (PEPs 842 and 843)

A returning Python blogger discusses three related proposals aimed at solving the long-standing problem of distinguishing public from private names in Python modules: PEP 842 (withdrawn, proposed an __export__ list and an export soft keyword with several syntactic forms), PEP 843 (proposes export as a soft keyword focused on re-exports, automatically populating __all__), and PEP 844 (proposes adding @public/@private decorators from the atpublic library to builtins instead of a new keyword). The author built experimental import hooks in a side project to let people try the proposed export syntax today, noting that community discussion on these PEPs has quieted down.

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