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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2015-05-02 18:57:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2015-05-02 18:57:54 (GMT) |
| commit | 6d877ef0260b4b9bc2d722a6817818c06047e42a (patch) | |
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#24081: Remove obsolete caveat from import docs.
Per Eric Snow's research, this changed in Python 2.4 in changeset 331e60d8ce,
but these docs were not updated.
Patch by Peter Viktorin.
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/imp.rst | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/library/importlib.rst | 6 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/imp.rst b/Doc/library/imp.rst index c2dbdc5..83a52e4 100644 --- a/Doc/library/imp.rst +++ b/Doc/library/imp.rst @@ -149,12 +149,6 @@ This module provides an interface to the mechanisms used to implement the There are a number of other caveats: - If a module is syntactically correct but its initialization fails, the first - :keyword:`import` statement for it does not bind its name locally, but does - store a (partially initialized) module object in ``sys.modules``. To reload the - module you must first :keyword:`import` it again (this will bind the name to the - partially initialized module object) before you can :func:`reload` it. - When a module is reloaded, its dictionary (containing the module's global variables) is retained. Redefinitions of names will override the old definitions, so this is generally not a problem. If the new version of a module diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst index 91328af..c947335 100644 --- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst @@ -152,12 +152,6 @@ Functions There are a number of other caveats: - If a module is syntactically correct but its initialization fails, the first - :keyword:`import` statement for it does not bind its name locally, but does - store a (partially initialized) module object in ``sys.modules``. To reload - the module you must first :keyword:`import` it again (this will bind the name - to the partially initialized module object) before you can :func:`reload` it. - When a module is reloaded, its dictionary (containing the module's global variables) is retained. Redefinitions of names will override the old definitions, so this is generally not a problem. If the new version of a |