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| author | Thomas Grainger <tagrain@gmail.com> | 2022-07-17 01:07:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-07-17 01:07:53 (GMT) |
| commit | 6da988a46c8955755624ad9878288d5214fceb4e (patch) | |
| tree | bc3d48d836bb49b52f76761f776ec8c0440793a2 /Doc/reference | |
| parent | 2e9da8e3522764d09f1d6054a2be567e91a30812 (diff) | |
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gh-91181: drop support for bytes on sys.path (GH-31934)
Support for bytes broke sometime between Python 3.2 and 3.6 and has been broken ever since. Trying to bring back supports is surprisingly difficult in the face of -b and checking for keys in sys.path_importer_cache. Since the support was broken for so long, trying to overcome the difficulty of bringing back the support has been deemed not worth it.
Co-authored-by: Eryk Sun <eryksun@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/import.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/reference/import.rst b/Doc/reference/import.rst index 29d402e..1e6b08f 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/import.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/import.rst @@ -800,10 +800,8 @@ environment variable and various other installation- and implementation-specific defaults. Entries in :data:`sys.path` can name directories on the file system, zip files, and potentially other "locations" (see the :mod:`site` module) that should be searched for modules, such as -URLs, or database queries. Only strings and bytes should be present on -:data:`sys.path`; all other data types are ignored. The encoding of bytes -entries is determined by the individual :term:`path entry finders <path entry -finder>`. +URLs, or database queries. Only strings should be present on +:data:`sys.path`; all other data types are ignored. The :term:`path based finder` is a :term:`meta path finder`, so the import machinery begins the :term:`import path` search by calling the path |