[docs] [issue33210] pkgutil.walk_packages "prefix" option docs are misleading

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:

https://bugs.python.org/issue29258 is an existing issue for the PEP 420 limitation (it also notes why fixing that implicitly is a potential problem)

I've retitled this issue to be specifically about the misleading docs for the "prefix" option (and updated the metadata accordingly).

"Recursive descent in pkgutil.walk_packages depends on sys.path" would be a reasonable title for an issue to actually fix the operation to use a better algorithm based on newer importlib APIs, but I haven't filed that myself.

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assignee:  -> docs at python
components: +Documentation -Library (Lib)
nosy: +docs at python
title: pkgutil.walk_packages gives incomplete results -> pkgutil.walk_packages "prefix" option docs are misleading
versions: +Python 3.7

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