exception is made for circular imports, which by construction have to
expose an incomplete module object at some point.
-.. versionchanged:: 3.3
- The locking scheme has changed to per-module locks for
- the most part. A global import lock is kept for some critical tasks,
- such as initializing the per-module locks.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.3
+ The locking scheme has changed to per-module locks for
+ the most part. A global import lock is kept for some critical tasks,
+ such as initializing the per-module locks.
-.. deprecated:: 3.4
+ .. deprecated:: 3.4
.. function:: acquire_lock()
On platforms without threads, this function does nothing.
-.. versionchanged:: 3.3
- The locking scheme has changed to per-module locks for
- the most part. A global import lock is kept for some critical tasks,
- such as initializing the per-module locks.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.3
+ The locking scheme has changed to per-module locks for
+ the most part. A global import lock is kept for some critical tasks,
+ such as initializing the per-module locks.
-.. deprecated:: 3.4
+ .. deprecated:: 3.4
.. function:: release_lock()
Release the interpreter's global import lock. On platforms without
threads, this function does nothing.
-.. versionchanged:: 3.3
- The locking scheme has changed to per-module locks for
- the most part. A global import lock is kept for some critical tasks,
- such as initializing the per-module locks.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.3
+ The locking scheme has changed to per-module locks for
+ the most part. A global import lock is kept for some critical tasks,
+ such as initializing the per-module locks.
-.. deprecated:: 3.4
+ .. deprecated:: 3.4
The following constants with integer values, defined in this module, are used
have to implement it, but it is still available for compatibility
purposes. Raise :exc:`IOError` if the path cannot be handled.
- .. versionchanged:: 3.4
- Raise :exc:`IOError` instead of :exc:`NotImplementedError`.
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.4
+ Raise :exc:`IOError` instead of :exc:`NotImplementedError`.
.. method:: set_data(path, data)
.. sectionauthor:: Greg Ward <gward@python.net>
.. deprecated:: 3.2
- The :mod:`optparse` module is deprecated and will not be developed further;
- development will continue with the :mod:`argparse` module.
+ The :mod:`optparse` module is deprecated and will not be developed further;
+ development will continue with the :mod:`argparse` module.
**Source code:** :source:`Lib/optparse.py`
.. deprecated:: 3.3
This emulation is no longer needed, as the standard import mechanism
- is now fully PEP 302 compliant and available in :mod:`importlib`
+ is now fully PEP 302 compliant and available in :mod:`importlib`.
.. class:: ImpLoader(fullname, file, filename, etc)
.. deprecated:: 3.3
This emulation is no longer needed, as the standard import mechanism
- is now fully PEP 302 compliant and available in :mod:`importlib`
+ is now fully PEP 302 compliant and available in :mod:`importlib`.
.. function:: find_loader(fullname)
if it refers to an existing directory, and if so, adds it to ``sys.path`` and
also inspects the newly added path for configuration files.
-.. deprecated:: 3.4
+.. deprecated-removed:: 3.4 3.5
Support for the "site-python" directory will be removed in 3.5.
If a file named "pyvenv.cfg" exists one directory above sys.executable,