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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst index accc306..fd594fd 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst @@ -425,9 +425,9 @@ your package (expressed in terms of a hierarchical filesystem): 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 the directories -as containing packages; this is done to prevent directories with a common name, -such as ``string``, from unintentionally hiding valid modules that occur later +The :file:`__init__.py` files are required to make Python treat directories +containing the file as packages. This prevents directories with a common name, +such as ``string``, 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 set the ``__all__`` variable, described later. |