# Builtin "export" decorator/function

**URL:** <https://discuss.python.org/t/builtin-export-decorator-function/11757>\
**Category:** Ideas\
**Created:** [November 5, 2021, 8:40pm UTC](https://discuss.python.org/t/builtin-export-decorator-function/11757 "2021-11-05T20:40:25Z")\
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> [@barry](#):
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> OTOH, I really wonder how useful the inject-into-builtins feature really is.

I’d advise against this. I have been doing builtin injections with mxTools back in the days with many new builtins and esp. in larger projects this became a maintenance pain: figuring out whether a module used one of the many new builtins was getting increasingly difficult. It’s better to be explicit and import whatever you need at the top of the module.

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