From: R David Murray Date: Sat, 2 May 2015 18:57:54 +0000 (-0400) Subject: #24081: Remove obsolete caveat from import docs. X-Git-Tag: v3.5.0b1~267^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6d877ef0260b4b9bc2d722a6817818c06047e42a;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git #24081: Remove obsolete caveat from import docs. Per Eric Snow's research, this changed in Python 2.4 in changeset 331e60d8ce, but these docs were not updated. Patch by Peter Viktorin. --- diff --git a/Doc/library/imp.rst b/Doc/library/imp.rst index c2dbdc5cf9b9..83a52e4e14ff 100644 --- a/Doc/library/imp.rst +++ b/Doc/library/imp.rst @@ -149,12 +149,6 @@ This module provides an interface to the mechanisms used to implement the There are a number of other caveats: - If a module is syntactically correct but its initialization fails, the first - :keyword:`import` statement for it does not bind its name locally, but does - store a (partially initialized) module object in ``sys.modules``. To reload the - module you must first :keyword:`import` it again (this will bind the name to the - partially initialized module object) before you can :func:`reload` it. - When a module is reloaded, its dictionary (containing the module's global variables) is retained. Redefinitions of names will override the old definitions, so this is generally not a problem. If the new version of a module diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst index 91328af701b1..c9473357c9f3 100644 --- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst @@ -152,12 +152,6 @@ Functions There are a number of other caveats: - If a module is syntactically correct but its initialization fails, the first - :keyword:`import` statement for it does not bind its name locally, but does - store a (partially initialized) module object in ``sys.modules``. To reload - the module you must first :keyword:`import` it again (this will bind the name - to the partially initialized module object) before you can :func:`reload` it. - When a module is reloaded, its dictionary (containing the module's global variables) is retained. Redefinitions of names will override the old definitions, so this is generally not a problem. If the new version of a