From 722d3aec2eef7228c03ee12c53c75bb090c069e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brett Cannon Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 17:45:54 -0400 Subject: Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for __import__ to not mention negative 'level' values and set its document default value to 0. Thanks to Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis for filing the bug. --- Misc/NEWS | 4 ++++ Python/bltinmodule.c | 5 ++--- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index e628f74..234b4c2 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ What's New in Python 3.3.0 Beta 2? Core and Builtins ----------------- +- Issue #15508: Fix the docstring for __import__ to have the proper default + value of 0 for 'level' and to not mention negative levels since they are + not supported. + - Issue #15425: Eliminated traceback noise from more situations involving importlib diff --git a/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c index 80ac7f1..3617b5a 100644 --- a/Python/bltinmodule.c +++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c @@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ builtin___import__(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds) } PyDoc_STRVAR(import_doc, -"__import__(name, globals={}, locals={}, fromlist=[], level=-1) -> module\n\ +"__import__(name, globals={}, locals={}, fromlist=[], level=0) -> 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\ @@ -208,8 +208,7 @@ 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\ +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."); -- cgit v0.12