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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/tutorial/modules.rst | 3 |
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst index bf9e8e0..0316239 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst @@ -437,7 +437,8 @@ When importing the package, Python searches through the directories on ``sys.path`` looking for the package subdirectory. The :file:`__init__.py` files are required to make Python treat directories -containing the file as packages. This prevents directories with a common name, +containing the file as packages (unless using a :term:`namespace package`, a +relatively advanced feature). This prevents directories with a common name, such as ``string``, from unintentionally hiding valid modules that occur later on the module search path. In the simplest case, :file:`__init__.py` can just be an empty file, but it can also execute initialization code for the package or |