Issue #14628: Document the fact that import always returns the module
as found in sys.modules and not as what the loader returns (even
though it is required to by PEP 302).
diff --git a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
index 3bd0894..1b46e42 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst
@@ -776,7 +776,8 @@
be set to the name of package that contains the module or package (the empty
string is used for module not contained in a package). :data:`__loader__` is
also optional but should be set to the loader object that is loading the
-module.
+module. While loaders are required to return the module they loaded, import
+itself always retrieves any modules it returns from :data:`sys.modules`.
.. index::
exception: ImportError