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Since __import__ is not designed for general use, have its docstring point

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people towards importlib.import_module().

Closes issue #7397.
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Brett Cannon 2010-09-27 21:08:38 +00:00
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@ -173,8 +173,12 @@ builtin___import__(PyObject *self, PyObject *args, PyObject *kwds)
PyDoc_STRVAR(import_doc,
"__import__(name, globals={}, locals={}, fromlist=[], level=-1) -> module\n\
\n\
Import a module. The globals are only used to determine the context;\n\
they are not modified. The locals are currently unused. The fromlist\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\
importlib.import_module() to programmatically import a module.\n\
\n\
The globals argument is only used to determine the context;\n\
they are not modified. The locals argument is unused. The fromlist\n\
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\