[issue44693] Unclear definition of the "__future__" module in Docs

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

> it doesn't do a normal import of the `__future__.py` module, it is actually a compiler directive.

It’s both!  The compiler has special handling for this line (pseudo-module), and the interpreter does a regular import that gets the regular python module which can be used for introspection (the third purpose noted in the module doc).

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nosy: +eric.araujo

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