On Sun, 31 Jan 2016, 15:36 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> wrote:
On 1/31/2016 12:09 PM, Antoine Pitrou wrote:

> The following documentation leaves me absolutely clueless:
>
> """This class only works with loaders that define exec_module() as control
> over what module type is used for the module is required.

No wonder.  I cannot parse it as an English sentence. It needs rewriting.

Feel free to open an issue to clarify the wording.

-Brett


> For those same
> reasons, the loader’s create_module() method will be ignored (i.e., the
> loader’s method should only return None). Finally, modules which substitute
> the object placed into sys.modules will not work as there is no way to
> properly replace the module references throughout the interpreter safely;
> ValueError is raised if such a substitution is detected."""
>
> (reference:
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importlib.util.LazyLoader)

--
Terry Jan Reedy


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