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| author | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2013-03-13 17:58:50 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2013-03-13 17:58:50 (GMT) |
| commit | 115309acec0dfb387f96cad914a554342a897e4a (patch) | |
| tree | 72c05c0a6e0c24040c13d6c4100fa1f8d5836c09 /Doc/library/imp.rst | |
| parent | a142a343e8a01adad81767f125711db80211e008 (diff) | |
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Issue #17176: Document that imp.NullImporter is no longer
automatically used by import.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/imp.rst b/Doc/library/imp.rst index 5cadda9..60d0105 100644 --- a/Doc/library/imp.rst +++ b/Doc/library/imp.rst @@ -326,16 +326,17 @@ to indicate the search result of :func:`find_module`. with an existing directory or empty string raises :exc:`ImportError`. Otherwise, a :class:`NullImporter` instance is returned. - Python adds instances of this type to ``sys.path_importer_cache`` for any path - entries that are not directories and are not handled by any other path hooks on - ``sys.path_hooks``. Instances have only one method: - + Instances have only one method: .. method:: NullImporter.find_module(fullname [, path]) This method always returns ``None``, indicating that the requested module could not be found. + .. versionchanged:: 3.3 + ``None`` is inserted into ``sys.path_importer_cache`` instead of an + instance of :class:`NullImporter`. + .. _examples-imp: |