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| author | Robert Collins <rbtcollins@hp.com> | 2015-08-04 20:28:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | Robert Collins <rbtcollins@hp.com> | 2015-08-04 20:28:53 (GMT) |
| commit | b3ca31f5f1ba51173d4b920ab5f423c63169d830 (patch) | |
| tree | 3e11da0d983ef73b0ebbecb60959581a37c9828b /Doc/library/importlib.rst | |
| parent | 78c89eb0aceeeaf67f537b8f6df8a3640acf4151 (diff) | |
| parent | 1ae28d2ff35caaa53aac34a064977c6c3997819f (diff) | |
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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 771c4c5..632df75 100644 --- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst @@ -179,11 +179,11 @@ 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 |