[docs] [issue32674] minor documentation fix for '__import__'
Qian Yun
report at bugs.python.org
Fri Jan 26 02:00:14 EST 2018
Qian Yun <oldk1331 at gmail.com> added the comment:
Sorry, a typo, it's "minor documentation fix".
See https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/5339
diff --git a/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c
index d8971bef2a..80b4f9447c 100644
--- a/Python/bltinmodule.c
+++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(import_doc,
"__import__(name, globals=None, locals=None, fromlist=(), level=0) -> 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\
@@ -326,8 +326,8 @@ 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. 0 is absolute while 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.");
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