__all__

相信很多人第一次见到这个__all__都很好奇，他有什么作用

那他到底有什么作用呢？

先上代码

from scrapy.utils.reqser import request_to_dict, request_from_dict
from . import picklecompat

class Base(object):
    """Per-spider queue/stack base class"""

    def __init__(self, server, spider, key, serializer=None):
        """Initialize per-spider redis queue.
        Parameters:
            server -- redis connection
            spider -- spider instance
            key -- key for this queue (e.g. "%(spider)s:queue")
        """
        if serializer is None:
            # Backward compatibility.
            # TODO: deprecate pickle.
            serializer = picklecompat
        if not hasattr(serializer, 'loads'):
            raise TypeError("serializer does not implement 'loads' function: %r"
                            % serializer)
        if not hasattr(serializer, 'dumps'):
            raise TypeError("serializer '%s' does not implement 'dumps' function: %r"
                            % serializer)

        self.server = server
        self.spider = spider
        self.key = key % {'spider': spider.name}
        self.serializer = serializer

    def _encode_request(self, request):
        """Encode a request object"""
        obj = request_to_dict(request, self.spider)
        return self.serializer.dumps(obj)

    def _decode_request(self, encoded_request):
        """Decode an request previously encoded"""
        obj = self.serializer.loads(encoded_request)
        return request_from_dict(obj, self.spider)

    def __len__(self):
        """Return the length of the queue"""
        raise NotImplementedError

    def push(self, request):
        """Push a request"""
        raise NotImplementedError

    def pop(self, timeout=0):
        """Pop a request"""
        raise NotImplementedError

    def clear(self):
        """Clear queue/stack"""
        self.server.delete(self.key)

class SpiderQueue(Base):
    """Per-spider FIFO queue"""

    def __len__(self):
        """Return the length of the queue"""
        return self.server.llen(self.key)

    def push(self, request):
        """Push a request"""
        self.server.lpush(self.key, self._encode_request(request))

    def pop(self, timeout=0):
        """Pop a request"""
        if timeout > 0:
            data = self.server.brpop(self.key, timeout)
            if isinstance(data, tuple):
                data = data[1]
        else:
            data = self.server.rpop(self.key)
        if data:
            return self._decode_request(data)

class SpiderPriorityQueue(Base):
    """Per-spider priority queue abstraction using redis' sorted set"""

    def __len__(self):
        """Return the length of the queue"""
        return self.server.zcard(self.key)

    def push(self, request):
        """Push a request"""
        data = self._encode_request(request)
        score = -request.priority
        # We don't use zadd method as the order of arguments change depending on
        # whether the class is Redis or StrictRedis, and the option of using
        # kwargs only accepts strings, not bytes.
        self.server.execute_command('ZADD', self.key, score, data)

    def pop(self, timeout=0):
        """
        Pop a request
        timeout not support in this queue class
        """
        # use atomic range/remove using multi/exec
        pipe = self.server.pipeline()
        pipe.multi()
        pipe.zrange(self.key, 0, 0).zremrangebyrank(self.key, 0, 0)
        results, count = pipe.execute()
        if results:
            return self._decode_request(results[0])

class SpiderStack(Base):
    """Per-spider stack"""

    def __len__(self):
        """Return the length of the stack"""
        return self.server.llen(self.key)

    def push(self, request):
        """Push a request"""
        self.server.lpush(self.key, self._encode_request(request))

    def pop(self, timeout=0):
        """Pop a request"""
        if timeout > 0:
            data = self.server.blpop(self.key, timeout)
            if isinstance(data, tuple):
                data = data[1]
        else:
            data = self.server.lpop(self.key)

        if data:
            return self._decode_request(data)

__all__ = ['SpiderQueue', 'SpiderPriorityQueue', 'SpiderStack']

上述代码来自scrapy-redis组件的Queue 模块，代码中出现了三个类，SpiderQueue, SpiderPriorityQueue, SpiderStack，模块结尾用了 all = ['SpiderQueue','SpiderPriorityQueue', 'SpiderStack']

这里的意思是：当其他地方 使用from <module> import *导入时，此模块的SpiderQueue, SpiderPriorityQueue, SpiderStack就能用了。

这里需要注意的是：__all__ = 后面是一个list，类名用字符串表示