Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 815f1a69283e by Ezio Melotti in branch '3.4':
#18034: update FAQ to suggest importlib.import_module instead of __import__.
Patch by Wouter van Heyst.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/815f1a69283e
New changeset f78ef3819d67 by Ezio Melotti in
Ezio Melotti added the comment:
Fixed, thanks for the patch!
The other FAQ got fixed in #17177/3d3b9d456eb8.
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Wouter van Heyst added the comment:
The attached patch changes the body of the __import__ faq entry to suggest
using `importlib.import_module` instead.
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Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36227/faq-import_module.diff
Ezio Melotti added the comment:
imp.reload() doesn't seem to be deprecated, and importlib.reload() doesn't
exist. Is there another alternative or it just hasn't been moved somewhere
else?
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Ezio Melotti added the comment:
FTR here is a link to the FAQs:
http://docs.python.org/3/faq/programming.html#import-x-y-z-returns-module-x-how-do-i-get-z
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Brett Cannon added the comment:
Hasn't been moved yet. And the __import__ question should probably be rephrased
as don't do this.
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Changes by Brett Cannon br...@python.org:
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New submission from R. David Murray:
The second to last talks about the __import__ quirk with out calling __import__
out as deprecated. The last uses the imp module for reload.
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