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diff --git a/Doc/reference/import.rst b/Doc/reference/import.rst index 213b314..c595242 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/import.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/import.rst @@ -857,9 +857,8 @@ module. ``find_spec()`` returns a fully populated spec for the module. This spec will always have "loader" set (with one exception). To indicate to the import machinery that the spec represents a namespace -:term:`portion`, the path entry finder sets "loader" on the spec to -``None`` and "submodule_search_locations" to a list containing the -portion. +:term:`portion`, the path entry finder sets "submodule_search_locations" to +a list containing the portion. .. versionchanged:: 3.4 :meth:`~importlib.abc.PathEntryFinder.find_spec` replaced @@ -875,18 +874,7 @@ portion. :meth:`~importlib.abc.PathEntryFinder.find_loader` takes one argument, the fully qualified name of the module being imported. ``find_loader()`` returns a 2-tuple where the first item is the loader and the second item - is a namespace :term:`portion`. When the first item (i.e. the loader) is - ``None``, this means that while the path entry finder does not have a - loader for the named module, it knows that the path entry contributes to - a namespace portion for the named module. This will almost always be the - case where Python is asked to import a namespace package that has no - physical presence on the file system. When a path entry finder returns - ``None`` for the loader, the second item of the 2-tuple return value must - be a sequence, although it can be empty. - - If ``find_loader()`` returns a non-``None`` loader value, the portion is - ignored and the loader is returned from the path based finder, terminating - the search through the path entries. + is a namespace :term:`portion`. For backwards compatibility with other implementations of the import protocol, many path entry finders also support the same, |