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| author | Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com> | 2022-05-23 01:53:24 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-05-23 01:53:24 (GMT) |
| commit | e39cd765610c9099da3b5595186ad16223b670b0 (patch) | |
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gh-92994: Clarify importlib "check" example (#92995)
Fixes #92994
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diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst index f195322..aac556e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst @@ -1250,6 +1250,9 @@ Checking if a module can be imported If you need to find out if a module can be imported without actually doing the import, then you should use :func:`importlib.util.find_spec`. + +Note that if ``name`` is a submodule (contains a dot), +:func:`importlib.util.find_spec` will import the parent module. :: import importlib.util |