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authorVictor Stinner <vstinner@python.org>2021-01-27 23:03:23 (GMT)
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bpo-42955: Remove sub-packages from sys.stdlib_module_names (GH-24353)
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@@ -1575,9 +1575,10 @@ always available.
All module kinds are listed: pure Python, built-in, frozen and extension
modules. Test modules are excluded.
- For packages, only sub-packages are listed, not sub-modules. For example,
- ``concurrent`` package and ``concurrent.futures`` sub-package are listed,
- but not ``concurrent.futures.base`` sub-module.
+ For packages, only the main package is listed: sub-packages and sub-modules
+ are not listed. For example, the ``email`` package is listed, but the
+ ``email.mime`` sub-package and the ``email.message`` sub-module are not
+ listed.
See also the :attr:`sys.builtin_module_names` list.