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author | Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com> | 2009-07-17 10:42:05 +0000 |
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committer | Alexandre Vassalotti <alexandre@peadrop.com> | 2009-07-17 10:42:05 +0000 |
commit | 711ed4aedfb6b94da650c165636a676dcc22869d (patch) | |
tree | 9c82ff4f7c33b6bb8ddb4a61343c7e8c24968cb2 /Doc/library/imp.rst | |
parent | ea3714e6890654167ab4f420ee4cf09cf545ad06 (diff) | |
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Merged revisions 73930-73932,73937-73939,73945,73951,73954,73962-73963,73970 via svnmerge from
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r73930 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-07-10 12:47:42 -0400 (Fri, 10 Jul 2009) | 2 lines
#6447: typo in subprocess docstring
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r73931 | ezio.melotti | 2009-07-10 16:25:56 -0400 (Fri, 10 Jul 2009) | 1 line
more cleanups and if zlib -> skipUnless(zlib)
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r73932 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-07-11 04:44:43 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 3 lines
http://bugs.python.org/issue6460
Need to be careful with thread switching when testing the xmlrpc server. The server thread may not have updated stats when the client thread tests them.
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r73937 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-11 06:12:36 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line
Fix style.
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r73938 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-11 06:14:54 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line
#6446: fix import_spam() function to use correct error and reference handling.
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r73939 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-11 06:18:10 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line
#6448: clarify docs for find_module().
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r73945 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-11 06:51:31 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line
#6456: clarify the meaning of constants used as arguments to nl_langinfo().
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r73951 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-11 10:23:38 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 2 lines
array.array is actually a class.
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r73954 | tarek.ziade | 2009-07-11 13:21:00 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line
reverted changes for #6459 (doesn't apply on 2.x)
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r73962 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-11 18:15:13 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line
put downloaded test support files in Lib/test/data instead of the cwd
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r73963 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-11 18:25:24 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line
ignore things in Lib/test/data/
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r73970 | hirokazu.yamamoto | 2009-07-11 22:04:47 -0400 (Sat, 11 Jul 2009) | 1 line
Fixed distutils test.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/imp.rst b/Doc/library/imp.rst index 06cfefc3da..68cda84bf5 100644 --- a/Doc/library/imp.rst +++ b/Doc/library/imp.rst @@ -33,16 +33,17 @@ This module provides an interface to the mechanisms used to implement the .. function:: find_module(name[, path]) - Try to find the module *name* on the search path *path*. If *path* is a list - of directory names, each directory is searched for files with any of the - suffixes returned by :func:`get_suffixes` above. Invalid names in the list - are silently ignored (but all list items must be strings). If *path* is - omitted or ``None``, the list of directory names given by ``sys.path`` is - searched, but first it searches a few special places: it tries to find a - built-in module with the given name (:const:`C_BUILTIN`), then a frozen - module (:const:`PY_FROZEN`), and on some systems some other places are looked - in as well (on Windows, it looks in the registry which may point to a - specific file). + Try to find the module *name*. If *path* is omitted or ``None``, the list of + directory names given by ``sys.path`` is searched, but first a few special + places are searched: the function tries to find a built-in module with the + given name (:const:`C_BUILTIN`), then a frozen module (:const:`PY_FROZEN`), + and on some systems some other places are looked in as well (on Windows, it + looks in the registry which may point to a specific file). + + Otherwise, *path* must be a list of directory names; each directory is + searched for files with any of the suffixes returned by :func:`get_suffixes` + above. Invalid names in the list are silently ignored (but all list items + must be strings). If search is successful, the return value is a 3-element tuple ``(file, pathname, description)``: |