In Python, if module A defines a name `name`, and module B does `import
name from A`, then another module C can `import name from B`.
Sometimes it is intentional -- module B is meant to "reexport" `name`.
But sometimes it is just confusion/inconsistency on where `name` should
be imported from.
mypy has a flag `--no-implicit-reexport` which puts some order into
this. A name can only be imported from a module if
1. The module defines the name
2. The module's `__all__` includes the name
3. The module imports the name as `from ... import .. as name`.
This flag is included in mypy's `--strict` flag.
I like this flag, but I realize it is a bit controversial, and in
particular item 3 above is a bit unfriendly to contributors who don't
know about it. So I didn't intend to add it to pytest.
But while investigating issue 7589 I came upon mypy issue 8754 which
causes `--no-implicit-reexport` to leak into installed libraries and
causes some unexpected typing differences *in pytest* if the user uses
this flag.
Since the diff mostly makes sense, let's just conform to it.
Ran Benita
Anthony Sottile
Bruno Oliveira
Ronny Pfannschmidt