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authorBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2012-07-30 21:45:54 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2012-07-30 21:45:54 (GMT)
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Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for __import__ to not mention negative
'level' values and set its document default value to 0. Thanks to Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis for filing the bug.
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-rw-r--r--Python/bltinmodule.c5
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c
index 80ac7f1..3617b5a 100644
--- a/Python/bltinmodule.c
+++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ builtin___import__(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
}
PyDoc_STRVAR(import_doc,
-"__import__(name, globals={}, locals={}, fromlist=[], level=-1) -> module\n\
+"__import__(name, globals={}, locals={}, fromlist=[], level=0) -> module\n\
\n\
Import a module. Because this function is meant for use by the Python\n\
interpreter and not for general use it is better to use\n\
@@ -208,8 +208,7 @@ empty list to emulate ``import name''.\n\
When importing a module from a package, note that __import__('A.B', ...)\n\
returns package A when fromlist is empty, but its submodule B when\n\
fromlist is not empty. Level is used to determine whether to perform \n\
-absolute or relative imports. -1 is the original strategy of attempting\n\
-both absolute and relative imports, 0 is absolute, a positive number\n\
+absolute or relative imports. 0 is absolute while a positive number\n\
is the number of parent directories to search relative to the current module.");