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| author | Robert Collins <rbtcollins@hp.com> | 2015-08-04 20:16:41 (GMT) |
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| committer | Robert Collins <rbtcollins@hp.com> | 2015-08-04 20:16:41 (GMT) |
| commit | 937f2f70f5da95a3cfe72a0bdac91abad327a7bc (patch) | |
| tree | 16af90ceb909303a8487b9884da802f45afa1935 /Doc/library | |
| parent | 1d8b7be33316619083a7189f2cdd70fb071c14d0 (diff) | |
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Issue #20769: Improve reload() docs. Patch by Dorian Pula.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index f8f8780..8fac448 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1191,10 +1191,11 @@ section. except NameError: cache = {} - It is legal though generally not very useful to reload built-in or dynamically - loaded modules, except for :mod:`sys`, :mod:`__main__` and :mod:`__builtin__`. - 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 |