New submission from Anthony Foglia : Looking at the documentation for the __import__ builtin, the default value of the level parameter is unclear. Two different values are mentioned. The function signature is written: __import__(name, globals={}, locals={}, fromlist=[], level=-1) But the third paragraph begins: "level specifies whether to use absolute or relative imports. 0 (the default) means only perform absolute imports." So which is it, -1 or 0? I'm guessing 0. If -1 is still a valid value, it needs to be described. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 106621 nosy: afoglia, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Conflicting default values of parameter to __import__ versions: Python 3.1 _______________________________________ Python tracker http://bugs.python.org/issue8836 _______________________________________