From 8ccfedee13040a64a38d98410c47cb3f8e1b3edf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: joecrowleygaia <joseph.crowley@gaiaresources.com.au>
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2024 15:01:25 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] added Node as an exported name from the root package
 location. Updated linting commands section in the developer section to use
 ruff check.

---
 docs/developers.rst | 11 ++++-------
 rdflib/__init__.py  |  3 ++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/developers.rst b/docs/developers.rst
index 4a9e2266b..5b2bb47cb 100644
--- a/docs/developers.rst
+++ b/docs/developers.rst
@@ -231,20 +231,17 @@ our black.toml config file:
 
     poetry run black .
 
-Check style and conventions with `flake8 <https://flake8.pycqa.org/en/latest/>`_:
+Check style and conventions with `ruff <https://docs.astral.sh/ruff/linter/>`_:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-    poetry run flake8 rdflib
+    poetry run ruff check
 
-We also provide a `flakeheaven <https://pypi.org/project/flakeheaven/>`_
-baseline that ignores existing flake8 errors and only reports on newly
-introduced flake8 errors:
+Any issues that are found can potentially be fixed automatically using:
 
 .. code-block:: bash
 
-    poetry run flakeheaven
-
+   poetry run ruff check --fix
 
 Check types with `mypy <http://mypy-lang.org/>`_:
 
diff --git a/rdflib/__init__.py b/rdflib/__init__.py
index 0c40cd7a4..843b614e4 100644
--- a/rdflib/__init__.py
+++ b/rdflib/__init__.py
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@
     "BNode",
     "IdentifiedNode",
     "Literal",
+    "Node",
     "Variable",
     "Namespace",
     "Dataset",
@@ -195,7 +196,7 @@
     XSD,
     Namespace,
 )
-from rdflib.term import BNode, IdentifiedNode, Literal, URIRef, Variable
+from rdflib.term import BNode, IdentifiedNode, Literal, Node, URIRef, Variable
 
 from rdflib import plugin, query, util  # isort:skip
 from rdflib.container import *  # isort:skip # noqa: F403