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author | Robert Collins <rbtcollins@hp.com> | 2015-08-04 20:20:53 (GMT) |
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committer | Robert Collins <rbtcollins@hp.com> | 2015-08-04 20:20:53 (GMT) |
commit | 1ae28d2ff35caaa53aac34a064977c6c3997819f (patch) | |
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Issue #20769: Improve reload() docs. Patch by Dorian Pula.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst index c947335..c84d2df 100644 --- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst @@ -166,11 +166,11 @@ Functions except NameError: cache = {} - It is legal though generally not very useful to reload built-in or - dynamically loaded modules (this is not true for e.g. :mod:`sys`, - :mod:`__main__`, :mod:`builtins` and other key modules where reloading is - frowned upon). 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 |