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| author | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2012-04-20 19:57:46 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2012-04-20 19:57:46 (GMT) |
| commit | 1b5123aae5632193caace8b1427d767429b6850b (patch) | |
| tree | 188f851b6b042736cfee72258fe5e706264f3a0c | |
| parent | 1032af95ffc6ec1c288504dfd5321e941e3607d4 (diff) | |
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Issue #14628: Document the fact that import always returns the module
as found in sys.modules and not as what the loader returns (even
though it is required to by PEP 302).
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst index 3bd0894..1b46e42 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst @@ -776,7 +776,8 @@ within the package being imported. :data:`__package__` is optional but should be set to the name of package that contains the module or package (the empty string is used for module not contained in a package). :data:`__loader__` is also optional but should be set to the loader object that is loading the -module. +module. While loaders are required to return the module they loaded, import +itself always retrieves any modules it returns from :data:`sys.modules`. .. index:: exception: ImportError |