From: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 01:53:24 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: gh-92994: Clarify importlib "check" example (#92995)
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gh-92994: Clarify importlib "check" example (#92995)

Fixes #92994
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diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
index f19532213940..aac556e2c68d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
@@ -1250,6 +1250,9 @@ Checking if a module can be imported
 
 If you need to find out if a module can be imported without actually doing the
 import, then you should use :func:`importlib.util.find_spec`.
+
+Note that if ``name`` is a submodule (contains a dot),
+:func:`importlib.util.find_spec` will import the parent module.
 ::
 
   import importlib.util