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diff --git a/Doc/c-api/utilities.rst b/Doc/c-api/utilities.rst index f2a2c7422b..ada7dee4dd 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/utilities.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/utilities.rst @@ -207,12 +207,12 @@ Importing Modules .. cfunction:: PyObject* PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock(const char *name) This version of :cfunc:`PyImport_ImportModule` does not block. It's intended - to be used in C function which import other modules to execute a function. + to be used in C functions that import other modules to execute a function. The import may block if another thread holds the import lock. The function - :cfunc:`PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock` doesn't block. It first tries to fetch + :cfunc:`PyImport_ImportModuleNoBlock` never blocks. It first tries to fetch the module from sys.modules and falls back to :cfunc:`PyImport_ImportModule` - unless the the lock is hold. In the latter case the function raises an - ImportError. + unless the lock is held, in which case the function will raise an + :exc:`ImportError`. .. versionadded:: 2.6 |