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| author | Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> | 2009-03-09 07:53:09 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com> | 2009-03-09 07:53:09 (GMT) |
| commit | ad876c7083e606ddd4cc60afc62dfbd15dc31014 (patch) | |
| tree | 0d8df9b33ebd9397da3d582e4450fddc71bb7b4c /Doc | |
| parent | 2a922ed6adf28fabd10cb852133be5aeeb906aa5 (diff) | |
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Clarify an assumption that importlib.abc.PyLoader makes when importing a
package and setting __path__.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst index eb9fd00..a39c17e 100644 --- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst @@ -215,7 +215,10 @@ are also provided to help in implementing the core ABCs. ..method:: load_module(fullname) A concrete implementation of :meth:`importlib.abc.Loader.load_module` - that loads Python source code. + that loads Python source code. All needed information comes from the + abstract methods required by this ABC. The only pertinent assumption + made by this method is that when loading a package + :attr:`__path__` is set to ``[os.path.dirname(__file__)]``. ..method:: get_code(fullname) |