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authorBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2012-07-09 18:10:23 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2012-07-09 18:10:23 (GMT)
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Issue #15288: Clarify that pkgutil.walk_packages() and friends will no
longer work as expected in Python 3.3 as importlib's loaders do not implement the non-standard iter_modules() method. Also link to the term "loader" in the requisite notes to help make it clearer what has happened.
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Documentation
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+- Issue #15288: Link to the term "loader" in notes in pkgutil about how things
+ won't work as expected in Python 3.3 and mark the requisite functions as
+ "changed" since they will no longer work with modules directly imported by
+ import itself.
+
- Issue #13557: Clarify effect of giving two different namespaces to exec or
execfile().