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authorBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2014-05-09 15:55:49 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2014-05-09 15:55:49 (GMT)
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Issue #21438: Document what loaders don't require a module name for
load_module().
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/importlib.rst12
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diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
index afdae9e..09a5d71 100644
--- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
@@ -887,6 +887,11 @@ find and load modules.
Concrete implementation of :meth:`importlib.abc.SourceLoader.set_data`.
+ .. method:: load_module(name=None)
+
+ Concrete implementation of :meth:`importlib.abc.Loader.load_module` where
+ specifying the name of the module to load is optional.
+
.. class:: SourcelessFileLoader(fullname, path)
@@ -921,6 +926,11 @@ find and load modules.
Returns ``None`` as bytecode files have no source when this loader is
used.
+ .. method:: load_module(name=None)
+
+ Concrete implementation of :meth:`importlib.abc.Loader.load_module` where
+ specifying the name of the module to load is optional.
+
.. class:: ExtensionFileLoader(fullname, path)
@@ -940,7 +950,7 @@ find and load modules.
Path to the extension module.
- .. method:: load_module(fullname)
+ .. method:: load_module(name=None)
Loads the extension module if and only if *fullname* is the same as
:attr:`name` or is ``None``.