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| author | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2013-03-13 17:46:22 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2013-03-13 17:46:22 (GMT) |
| commit | 2514b4871f59687d72a684b09ebfe485b60b5422 (patch) | |
| tree | e5b7c6726021fb150ea59506c14082c337dd02b7 /Doc/library/sys.rst | |
| parent | 8c457d26b1f4423a9435e4f30c0756e362cf3a22 (diff) | |
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Issue #17176: Document that imp.NullImporter is no longer inserted
into sys.path_importer_cache.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/sys.rst b/Doc/library/sys.rst index f91a399..fb3ccee 100644 --- a/Doc/library/sys.rst +++ b/Doc/library/sys.rst @@ -785,12 +785,15 @@ always available. A dictionary acting as a cache for :term:`finder` objects. The keys are paths that have been passed to :data:`sys.path_hooks` and the values are the finders that are found. If a path is a valid file system path but no - explicit finder is found on :data:`sys.path_hooks` then ``None`` is - stored to represent the implicit default finder should be used. If the path - is not an existing path then :class:`imp.NullImporter` is set. + finder is found on :data:`sys.path_hooks` then ``None`` is + stored. Originally specified in :pep:`302`. + .. versionchanged:: 3.3 + ``None`` is stored instead of :class:`imp.NullImporter` when no finder + is found. + .. data:: platform |