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diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
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@@ -1250,6 +1250,9 @@ Checking if a module can be imported
If you need to find out if a module can be imported without actually doing the
import, then you should use :func:`importlib.util.find_spec`.
+
+Note that if ``name`` is a submodule (contains a dot),
+:func:`importlib.util.find_spec` will import the parent module.
::
import importlib.util