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authorBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2016-02-20 18:40:02 -0800
committerBrett Cannon <brett@python.org>2016-02-20 18:40:02 -0800
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List what classes from importlib.machinery don't work with importlib.util.LazyLoader
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@@ -1273,7 +1273,8 @@ an :term:`importer`.
:meth:`~importlib.abc.Loader.exec_module` as control over what module type
is used for the module is required. For those same reasons, the loader's
:meth:`~importlib.abc.Loader.create_module` method will be ignored (i.e., the
- loader's method should only return ``None``). Finally,
+ loader's method should only return ``None``; this excludes
+ :class:`BuiltinImporter` and :class:`ExtensionFileLoader`). Finally,
modules which substitute the object placed into :attr:`sys.modules` will
not work as there is no way to properly replace the module references
throughout the interpreter safely; :exc:`ValueError` is raised if such a