Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] tools: ynl: pyynl: re-export the library API from the package root
From: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
Date: 2026-06-30 07:28:35
On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 2:20 AM Jakub Kicinski [off-list ref] wrote:
The public classes live in pyynl.lib, so users had to spell out from pyynl.lib import YnlFamily which I forget at least once a month. Re-export lib's API from the package __init__ so that from pyynl import YnlFamily works as well. I don't think there was a real reason not to do this?
I think it was more uncertainty on my part whether in future we get more subdirectories. Acked-by: Jan Stancek <jstancek@redhat.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> --- tools/net/ynl/pyynl/__init__.py | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)diff --git a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/__init__.py b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/__init__.py index e69de29bb2d1..d8f59c132ab7 100644 --- a/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/__init__.py +++ b/tools/net/ynl/pyynl/__init__.py@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause + +""" Python YNL (YAML Netlink) library. """ + +# Re-export the public library API so it can be imported straight from the +# package, e.g. `from pyynl import YnlFamily`. +# pylint: disable=wildcard-import,unused-wildcard-import +from .lib import * +from .lib import __all__ --2.54.0