Hiding extra imports from a package

Question

I have a package which allows importing much noise. I have tried to use the __all__ like:

__all__ = ["WebdriverChauffeurMixin", "ChromeDriver", "FirefoxDriver"]

but this is not helping:

cchilders:~/projects/webdriver_chauffeur (master) 
$ pip uninstall webdriver-chauffeur
Can't uninstall 'webdriver-chauffeur'. No files were found to uninstall.

cchilders:~/projects/webdriver_chauffeur (master) 
$ pip uninstall webdriver_chauffeur
Can't uninstall 'webdriver-chauffeur'. No files were found to uninstall.

In [2]: from webdriver_chauffeur import 
BeautifulSoup            Keys                     os
By                       Select                   random
ChromeDriver             TimeoutException         subprocess
EC                       WebDriverWait            time
FirefoxDriver            WebdriverChauffeurMixin  webdriver

The package is on pypi but also on my machine at ~/projects/webdriver_chauffeur

Package is at https://github.com/codyc4321/webdriver_chauffeur

How can I hide these unnecessary imports?

Answer 1

This looks like an ipython issue, not an __all__ issue. Per this GitHub issue, this behavior is configurable (though the option is deprecated).