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authorBrett Cannon <brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com>2018-04-20 23:32:46 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2018-04-20 23:32:46 (GMT)
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Clarify that __path__ can't be just any value (GH-6554)
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@@ -616,8 +616,7 @@ the module.
module.__path__
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-By definition, if a module has a ``__path__`` attribute, it is a package,
-regardless of its value.
+By definition, if a module has a ``__path__`` attribute, it is a package.
A package's ``__path__`` attribute is used during imports of its subpackages.
Within the import machinery, it functions much the same as :data:`sys.path`,