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authorBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2012-11-17 14:30:55 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2012-11-17 14:30:55 (GMT)
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Issue #16489: Make it clearer that importlib.find_loader() requires
the user to import any parent packages.
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-rw-r--r--Lib/importlib/__init__.py4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/importlib/__init__.py b/Lib/importlib/__init__.py
index 6f40dac..22c90f2 100644
--- a/Lib/importlib/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/importlib/__init__.py
@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ def find_loader(name, path=None):
value of 'path' given to the finders. None is returned if no loader could
be found.
- Dotted names do not have their parent packages implicitly imported.
+ Dotted names do not have their parent packages implicitly imported. You will
+ most likely need to explicitly import all parent packages in the proper
+ order for a submodule to get the correct loader.
"""
try: