Recipe 576993 revision 1

import sys

def public(f):
    """"Use a decorator to avoid retyping function/class names.

    * Based on an idea by Duncan Booth:
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/11cbb03e09611b8a
    * Improved via a suggestion by Dave Angel:
    http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/msg/3d400fb22d8a42e1
    """
    all = sys.modules[f.__module__].__dict__.setdefault('__all__', [])
    if f.__name__ not in all:  # Prevent duplicates if run from an IDE.
        all.append(f.__name__)
    return f
public(public)  # Emulate decorating ourself

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