Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Looking at the actual doc: "importlib.__import__(name, globals=None, locals=None, fromlist=(), level=0) An implementation of the built-in __import__() function."
I think this is pretty clear that builtin.__import__ has no effect unless directly called. "importlib.import_module(name, package=None)...The import_module() function acts as a simplifying wrapper around importlib.__import__()." The word 'wrapper' implies that import_module calls __import__, but you say it currently does not. So if you want to keep the code as is, I would change 'acts as a simplifying wrapper around' to 'is a simplified version of', which makes no promises. Do you really want people to directly call importlib.__import__? If not, maybe the nearly empty entry should be deleted and the entry for import_module changed to make no reference to it. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue18831> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
