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Issue #17953: document that sys.modules shouldn't be replaced (thanks

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to interp->modules) and that deleting essential items from the dict
can cause Python to blow up.

Thanks to Terry Reedy for coming up with initial wording and Yogesh
Chaudhari for coming up with a patch using that wording in parallel to
my own patch.
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@ -732,6 +732,8 @@ always available.
This is a dictionary that maps module names to modules which have already been
loaded. This can be manipulated to force reloading of modules and other tricks.
However, replacing the dictionary will not necessarily work as expected and
deleting essential items from the dictionary may cause Python to fail.
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