From e801aa2a1d291635b3607bc424c639a992799254 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?=C3=89ric=20Araujo?= Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:50:58 +0200 Subject: Let the doc of __import__ link to importlib (#9254). importlib.import_module eschews a number of issues that __import__ has. Reviewed by Brett Cannon. (The docstring of __import__ was already updated in 3d490c3a019e, for #7397.) --- Doc/library/functions.rst | 13 +++---------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst index b766a2e..edff106 100644 --- a/Doc/library/functions.rst +++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst @@ -1387,7 +1387,7 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. .. note:: This is an advanced function that is not needed in everyday Python - programming. + programming, unlike :func:`importlib.import_module`. This function is invoked by the :keyword:`import` statement. It can be replaced (by importing the :mod:`builtins` module and assigning to @@ -1437,15 +1437,8 @@ are always available. They are listed here in alphabetical order. names. If you simply want to import a module (potentially within a package) by name, - you can call :func:`__import__` and then look it up in :data:`sys.modules`:: - - >>> import sys - >>> name = 'foo.bar.baz' - >>> __import__(name) - - >>> baz = sys.modules[name] - >>> baz - + use :func:`importlib.import_module`. + .. rubric:: Footnotes -- cgit v0.12