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| author | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2012-04-20 15:57:46 -0400 |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2012-04-20 15:57:46 -0400 |
| commit | 1b5123aae5632193caace8b1427d767429b6850b (patch) | |
| tree | 188f851b6b042736cfee72258fe5e706264f3a0c /Doc/reference | |
| parent | 1032af95ffc6ec1c288504dfd5321e941e3607d4 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-1b5123aae5632193caace8b1427d767429b6850b.tar.gz | |
Issue #14628: Document the fact that import always returns the module
as found in sys.modules and not as what the loader returns (even
though it is required to by PEP 302).
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/reference')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst index 3bd08942c0..1b46e42936 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst @@ -776,7 +776,8 @@ within the package being imported. :data:`__package__` is optional but should be set to the name of package that contains the module or package (the empty string is used for module not contained in a package). :data:`__loader__` is also optional but should be set to the loader object that is loading the -module. +module. While loaders are required to return the module they loaded, import +itself always retrieves any modules it returns from :data:`sys.modules`. .. index:: exception: ImportError |