Issue #20769: Improve reload() docs. Patch by Dorian Pula.

3 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index f8f8780..8fac448 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1191,10 +1191,11 @@ section.
       except NameError:
           cache = {}
 
-   It is legal though generally not very useful to reload built-in or dynamically
-   loaded modules, except for :mod:`sys`, :mod:`__main__` and :mod:`__builtin__`.
-   In many cases, however, extension modules are not designed to be initialized
-   more than once, and may fail in arbitrary ways when reloaded.
+   It is generally not very useful to reload built-in or dynamically loaded
+   modules.  Reloading :mod:`sys`, :mod:`__main__`, :mod:`builtins` and other
+   key modules is not recommended.  In many cases extension modules are not
+   designed to be initialized more than once, and may fail in arbitrary ways
+   when reloaded.
 
    If a module imports objects from another module using :keyword:`from` ...
    :keyword:`import` ..., calling :func:`reload` for the other module does not
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 21f4cca..12d9674 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1088,6 +1088,7 @@ Paul Prescod
 Donovan Preston
 Paul Price
 Iuliia Proskurnia
+Dorian Pula
 Jyrki Pulliainen
 Steve Purcell
 Eduardo Pérez
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 54c2d8c..09db1d3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ IDLE
 Documentation
 -------------
 
+- Issue #20769: Improve reload() docs. Patch by Dorian Pula.
+
 - Issue #23589: Remove duplicate sentence from the FAQ.  Patch by Yongzhi Pan.
 
 - Issue #22155: Add File Handlers subsection with createfilehandler to Tkinter