[New-bugs-announce] [issue18698] importlib.reload() does not return the module in sys.modules

[Eric Snow]

New submission from Eric Snow:

Currently reload() returns the module that loader.load_module() returns, rather than returning the one in sys.modules.  This is different from what happens during normal import.  I would expect reload() to return what's in sys.modules.  Perhaps this got overlooked when we moved reload()?  I haven't had a chance to verify, but I do recall that the switch to importlib-based import in 3.3 exposed a bug where importlib wasn't returning the module in sys.modules during normal import.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 194776
nosy: brett.cannon, eric.snow
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: importlib.reload() does not return the module in sys.modules
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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