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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-05-23 02:11:58 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-05-23 02:11:58 (GMT) |
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gh-92994: Clarify importlib "check" example (GH-92995)
Fixes GH-92994
(cherry picked from commit e39cd765610c9099da3b5595186ad16223b670b0)
Co-authored-by: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>
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diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst index c9fb63b..85c2347 100644 --- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst @@ -1749,6 +1749,9 @@ Checking if a module can be imported If you need to find out if a module can be imported without actually doing the import, then you should use :func:`importlib.util.find_spec`. + +Note that if ``name`` is a submodule (contains a dot), +:func:`importlib.util.find_spec` will import the parent module. :: import importlib.util |