From 9b7b3a64560269188fcb43445becc5aacb4de2dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mariatta Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 11:23:53 -0500 Subject: bpo-32674: Improve the docstring for __import__ (GH-5339) (GH-5494) Clarify that the level argument is used to determine whether to perform absolute or relative imports: 0 is absolute, while a positive number is the number of parent directories to search relative to the current module.. (cherry picked from commit 461d225b195eec5269f317323b41115516144c41) Co-authored-by: oldk --- Python/bltinmodule.c | 7 +++---- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Python') diff --git a/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c index 0f2ee4ad1e..9ce3b275ea 100644 --- a/Python/bltinmodule.c +++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(import_doc, "__import__(name, globals={}, locals={}, fromlist=[], level=-1) -> module\n\ \n\ Import a module. Because this function is meant for use by the Python\n\ -interpreter and not for general use it is better to use\n\ +interpreter and not for general use, it is better to use\n\ importlib.import_module() to programmatically import a module.\n\ \n\ The globals argument is only used to determine the context;\n\ @@ -63,9 +63,8 @@ should be a list of names to emulate ``from name import ...'', or an\n\ empty list to emulate ``import name''.\n\ When importing a module from a package, note that __import__('A.B', ...)\n\ returns package A when fromlist is empty, but its submodule B when\n\ -fromlist is not empty. Level is used to determine whether to perform \n\ -absolute or relative imports. -1 is the original strategy of attempting\n\ -both absolute and relative imports, 0 is absolute, a positive number\n\ +fromlist is not empty. The level argument is used to determine whether to\n\ +perform absolute or relative imports: 0 is absolute, while a positive number\n\ is the number of parent directories to search relative to the current module."); -- cgit v1.2.1