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authorslateny <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com>2022-04-17 21:20:13 (GMT)
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gh-89885: Improve import example in language reference (#91523)
Co-authored-by: Jelle Zijlstra <jelle.zijlstra@gmail.com>
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@@ -490,21 +490,19 @@ submodule. Let's say you have the following directory structure::
spam/
__init__.py
foo.py
- bar.py
-and ``spam/__init__.py`` has the following lines in it::
+and ``spam/__init__.py`` has the following line in it::
from .foo import Foo
- from .bar import Bar
-then executing the following puts a name binding to ``foo`` and ``bar`` in the
+then executing the following puts name bindings for ``foo`` and ``Foo`` in the
``spam`` module::
>>> import spam
>>> spam.foo
<module 'spam.foo' from '/tmp/imports/spam/foo.py'>
- >>> spam.bar
- <module 'spam.bar' from '/tmp/imports/spam/bar.py'>
+ >>> spam.Foo
+ <class 'spam.foo.Foo'>
Given Python's familiar name binding rules this might seem surprising, but
it's actually a fundamental feature of the import system. The invariant