This is not a report of a bug in Python, but a criticism of the phrasing in the documentation. In Python Tutorial 6.1.2 (docs.python.org/py3k/tutorial/ modules.html#the-module-search-path) the second paragraph beginning with "Actually," is very alarming and disconcerting. It seems to mean that the preceding paragraph is not "actually" true and should be disregarded! I doubt that's what was intended, but I cannot quite understand just what the intended meaning was. How do these two paragraphs relate to one another? Are they both true? Is each one only partially true? Is there supposed to be some way of combining or synthesizing them into one coherent explanation? If so, it is not adequately communicated by the word "actually".