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diff --git a/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c
index 0f2ee4a..9ce3b27 100644
--- a/Python/bltinmodule.c
+++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(import_doc,
"__import__(name, globals={}, locals={}, fromlist=[], level=-1) -> module\n\
\n\
Import a module. Because this function is meant for use by the Python\n\
-interpreter and not for general use it is better to use\n\
+interpreter and not for general use, it is better to use\n\
importlib.import_module() to programmatically import a module.\n\
\n\
The globals argument is only used to determine the context;\n\
@@ -63,9 +63,8 @@ should be a list of names to emulate ``from name import ...'', or an\n\
empty list to emulate ``import name''.\n\
When importing a module from a package, note that __import__('A.B', ...)\n\
returns package A when fromlist is empty, but its submodule B when\n\
-fromlist is not empty. Level is used to determine whether to perform \n\
-absolute or relative imports. -1 is the original strategy of attempting\n\
-both absolute and relative imports, 0 is absolute, a positive number\n\
+fromlist is not empty. The level argument is used to determine whether to\n\
+perform absolute or relative imports: 0 is absolute, while a positive number\n\
is the number of parent directories to search relative to the current module.");