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| author | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2012-06-15 19:21:07 -0400 |
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| committer | Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> | 2012-06-15 19:21:07 -0400 |
| commit | 724233a47d7578f674e880eaf152d3321041cf45 (patch) | |
| tree | fc1d224f4028f150c81ac6eadc4950bbe01d19bd /Doc/library/pkgutil.rst | |
| parent | 6a9b9af682bc53750e3f4b3f193bf6b5b7ba68f3 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-724233a47d7578f674e880eaf152d3321041cf45.tar.gz | |
Closes issue #14982: Document that pkgutil's walk_packages() and
iter_modules() requires iter_modules() be defined on an importer. The
importers in importlib do not define this non-standard method.
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diff --git a/Doc/library/pkgutil.rst b/Doc/library/pkgutil.rst index 3118ff2047..0aee4e7637 100644 --- a/Doc/library/pkgutil.rst +++ b/Doc/library/pkgutil.rst @@ -138,6 +138,10 @@ support. *prefix* is a string to output on the front of every module name on output. + .. note:: + Only works for importers which define a ``iter_modules()`` method, which + is non-standard but implemented by classes defined in this module. + .. function:: walk_packages(path=None, prefix='', onerror=None) @@ -166,6 +170,10 @@ support. # list all submodules of ctypes walk_packages(ctypes.__path__, ctypes.__name__ + '.') + .. note:: + Only works for importers which define a ``iter_modules()`` method, which + is non-standard but implemented by classes defined in this module. + .. function:: get_data(package, resource) |