[Python-checkins] gh-92994: Clarify importlib "check" example (GH-92995)

[miss-islington]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/936eefcb820a02e6fad3c8128e89494e6b958717
commit: 936eefcb820a02e6fad3c8128e89494e6b958717
branch: 3.10
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-05-22T19:11:58-07:00
summary:

gh-92994: Clarify importlib "check" example (GH-92995)


Fixes GH-92994
(cherry picked from commit e39cd765610c9099da3b5595186ad16223b670b0)

Co-authored-by: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja at users.noreply.github.com>

files:
M Doc/library/importlib.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
index c9fb63b75a471..85c23472e2756 100644
--- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
@@ -1749,6 +1749,9 @@ Checking if a module can be imported
 
 If you need to find out if a module can be imported without actually doing the
 import, then you should use :func:`importlib.util.find_spec`.
+
+Note that if ``name`` is a submodule (contains a dot),
+:func:`importlib.util.find_spec` will import the parent module.
 ::
 
   import importlib.util