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author | Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> | 2012-04-25 00:11:07 (GMT) |
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committer | Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> | 2012-04-25 00:11:07 (GMT) |
commit | ac8805a01a0beeb4c5b2f6d9d988629446517632 (patch) | |
tree | 508e1844c0372f19b7bcdbf22d9aeb7de1635ca6 /Doc/library/importlib.rst | |
parent | 2945e78b05b8629969764842f73a845c1cbb2fb9 (diff) | |
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Issue #14605: Revert renaming of _SourcelessFileLoader, since it caused
the buildbots to fail.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst index a8013d2..de29e4f 100644 --- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst @@ -606,15 +606,18 @@ find and load modules. Load the specified module if it is the same as :attr:`name`. -.. class:: SourcelessFileLoader(fullname, path) +.. class:: _SourcelessFileLoader(fullname, path) A concrete implementation of :class:`importlib.abc.FileLoader` which can import bytecode files (i.e. no source code files exist). - Please note that direct use of bytecode files (and thus not source code - files) inhibits your modules from being usable by all Python - implementations or new versions of Python which change the bytecode - format. + It is **strongly** suggested you do not rely on this loader (hence the + leading underscore of the class). Direct use of bytecode files (and thus not + source code files) inhibits your modules from being usable by all Python + implementations. It also runs the risk of your bytecode files not being + usable by new versions of Python which change the bytecode format. This + class is only documented as it is directly used by import and thus can + potentially have instances show up as a module's ``__loader__`` attribute. .. versionadded:: 3.3 |