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| author | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2013-05-31 22:11:17 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2013-05-31 22:11:17 (GMT) |
| commit | b60a43eabf0ee17599caec484f4fe472cb4f36fe (patch) | |
| tree | b74fc162f77bdb416cc05cf74542acd6605d3aa6 /Doc/library/importlib.rst | |
| parent | 028d51236a3e056288c207dd61f780e2ce5f22e1 (diff) | |
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Add a reset_name argument to importlib.util.module_to_load in order to
control whether to reset the module's __name__ attribute in case a
reload is being done.
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst index 976451c..35336b1 100644 --- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst @@ -788,7 +788,7 @@ an :term:`importer`. .. versionadded:: 3.3 -.. function:: module_to_load(name) +.. function:: module_to_load(name, *, reset_name=True) Returns a :term:`context manager` which provides the module to load. The module will either come from :attr:`sys.modules` in the case of reloading or @@ -796,6 +796,10 @@ an :term:`importer`. :attr:`sys.modules` occurs if the module was new and an exception was raised. + If **reset_name** is true and the module requested is being reloaded then + the module's :attr:`__name__` attribute will + be reset to **name**, else it will be left untouched. + .. versionadded:: 3.4 .. decorator:: module_for_loader |