issue with "from example_dir import *"

[walecka]

i have loaded a directory with library module files onto my device using the ./pyboard tool such that the directory tree on my device looks like this

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/flash
       'boot.py'
       'main.py'
       /example_dir
              'mod1.py'
              'mod2.py'
              '__init__.py'

__init__.py contains only the following line of code:
__all__ = ["mod1", "mod2"]

when i try to call
from example_dir import *

from the REPL, i get no error messages, but nothing seems to happen. I cannot call mod1.somefunction(). When I do, I get the following error

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'mod1' isn't defined

Is this known behavior? I am not an expert, but from I have read I believe that calling
from example_dir import *
should import both mod1 and mod2 and allow me to use their functions

[jimmo]

Unfortunately __all__ is currently unsupported in MicroPython. I have added a test case for this so it automatically gets added to the docs at http://docs.micropython.org/en/latest/g ... tml#import

https://github.com/micropython/micropython/pull/5979

The workaround is to write:

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from . import mod1, mod2

instead