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-rw-r--r--Doc/c-api/utilities.rst16
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/utilities.rst b/Doc/c-api/utilities.rst
index d9e85b0..65adf31 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/utilities.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/utilities.rst
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ Importing Modules
.. index::
single: package variable; __all__
single: __all__ (package variable)
+ single: modules (in module sys)
This is a simplified interface to :cfunc:`PyImport_ImportModuleEx` below,
leaving the *globals* and *locals* arguments set to *NULL* and *level* set
@@ -202,19 +203,14 @@ Importing Modules
.. versionchanged:: 2.6
always use absolute imports
- .. index:: single: modules (in module sys)
-
.. cfunction:: PyObject* PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock(const char *name)
- .. index::
- single: `cfunc:PyImport_ImportModule`
-
- This version of `cfunc:PyImport_ImportModule` does not block. It's intended
+ This version of :cfunc:`PyImport_ImportModule` does not block. It's intended
to be used in C function which import other modules to execute a function.
The import may block if another thread holds the import lock. The function
- `cfunc:PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock` doesn't block. It first tries to fetch
- the module from sys.modules and falls back to `cfunc:PyImport_ImportModule`
+ :cfunc:`PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock` doesn't block. It first tries to fetch
+ the module from sys.modules and falls back to :cfunc:`PyImport_ImportModule`
unless the the lock is hold. In the latter case the function raises an
ImportError.
@@ -239,7 +235,7 @@ Importing Modules
failing imports remove incomplete module objects.
.. versionchanged:: 2.6
- The function is an alias for `cfunc:PyImport_ImportModuleLevel` with
+ The function is an alias for :cfunc:`PyImport_ImportModuleLevel` with
-1 as level, meaning relative import.
@@ -254,7 +250,7 @@ Importing Modules
the return value when a submodule of a package was requested is normally the
top-level package, unless a non-empty *fromlist* was given.
- ..versionadded:: 2.5
+ .. versionadded:: 2.5
.. cfunction:: PyObject* PyImport_Import(PyObject *name)