From 936eefcb820a02e6fad3c8128e89494e6b958717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Miss Islington (bot)" <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 22 May 2022 19:11:58 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] gh-92994: Clarify importlib "check" example (GH-92995) Fixes GH-92994 (cherry picked from commit e39cd765610c9099da3b5595186ad16223b670b0) Co-authored-by: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com> --- Doc/library/importlib.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst index c9fb63b75a4..85c23472e27 100644 --- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst @@ -1749,6 +1749,9 @@ Checking if a module can be imported If you need to find out if a module can be imported without actually doing the import, then you should use :func:`importlib.util.find_spec`. + +Note that if ``name`` is a submodule (contains a dot), +:func:`importlib.util.find_spec` will import the parent module. :: import importlib.util -- GitLab