From 27c712e149f4fab576a73c458412cfa4bdb63ddc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:40:02 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] List what classes from importlib.machinery don't work with importlib.util.LazyLoader --- Doc/library/importlib.rst | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 -- 2.40.0