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authorR David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>2015-05-02 18:57:54 (GMT)
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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.
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@@ -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