From: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2016 02:40:02 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: List what classes from importlib.machinery don't work with importlib.util.LazyLoader
X-Git-Tag: v3.6.0a1~591^2
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=27c712e149f4fab576a73c458412cfa4bdb63ddc;p=python

List what classes from importlib.machinery don't work with importlib.util.LazyLoader
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diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
index 23432e1f00..43b34e9005 100644
--- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
@@ -1273,7 +1273,8 @@ an :term:`importer`.
    :meth:`~importlib.abc.Loader.exec_module` as control over what module type
    is used for the module is required. For those same reasons, the loader's
    :meth:`~importlib.abc.Loader.create_module` method will be ignored (i.e., the
-   loader's method should only return ``None``). Finally,
+   loader's method should only return ``None``; this excludes
+   :class:`BuiltinImporter` and :class:`ExtensionFileLoader`). Finally,
    modules which substitute the object placed into :attr:`sys.modules` will
    not work as there is no way to properly replace the module references
    throughout the interpreter safely; :exc:`ValueError` is raised if such a