From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:01:06 +0000 (+0100) Subject: [3.13] gh-74955: Document that __all__ must contain strings in normalization form... X-Git-Tag: v3.13.13~54 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f17ed5e9bfab06372a8db136b5d54acd097afd7e;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.13] gh-74955: Document that __all__ must contain strings in normalization form NFKC (GH-144504) (GH-144520) (cherry picked from commit c81e1843d4bc0a51cf4f77d19b5ac4e49f714a0d) Co-authored-by: Serhiy Storchaka --- diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst index 5a9c398b54ca..8ed456a731b1 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst @@ -834,7 +834,9 @@ where the :keyword:`import` statement occurs. The *public names* defined by a module are determined by checking the module's namespace for a variable named ``__all__``; if defined, it must be a sequence -of strings which are names defined or imported by that module. The names +of strings which are names defined or imported by that module. +Names containing non-ASCII characters must be in the `normalization form`_ +NFKC. The names given in ``__all__`` are all considered public and are required to exist. If ``__all__`` is not defined, the set of public names includes all names found in the module's namespace which do not begin with an underscore character @@ -868,6 +870,8 @@ determine dynamically the modules to be loaded. .. audit-event:: import module,filename,sys.path,sys.meta_path,sys.path_hooks import +.. _normalization form: https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr15/#Norm_Forms + .. _future: Future statements