Issue #20769: Improve reload() docs. Patch by Dorian Pula.
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index f8f8780..8fac448 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1191,10 +1191,11 @@
except NameError:
cache = {}
- It is legal though generally not very useful to reload built-in or dynamically
- loaded modules, except for :mod:`sys`, :mod:`__main__` and :mod:`__builtin__`.
- In many cases, however, extension modules are not designed to be initialized
- more than once, and may fail in arbitrary ways when reloaded.
+ It is generally not very useful to reload built-in or dynamically loaded
+ modules. Reloading :mod:`sys`, :mod:`__main__`, :mod:`builtins` and other
+ key modules is not recommended. In many cases extension modules are not
+ designed to be initialized more than once, and may fail in arbitrary ways
+ when reloaded.
If a module imports objects from another module using :keyword:`from` ...
:keyword:`import` ..., calling :func:`reload` for the other module does not
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 21f4cca..12d9674 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1088,6 +1088,7 @@
Donovan Preston
Paul Price
Iuliia Proskurnia
+Dorian Pula
Jyrki Pulliainen
Steve Purcell
Eduardo Pérez
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 54c2d8c..09db1d3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -142,6 +142,8 @@
Documentation
-------------
+- Issue #20769: Improve reload() docs. Patch by Dorian Pula.
+
- Issue #23589: Remove duplicate sentence from the FAQ. Patch by Yongzhi Pan.
- Issue #22155: Add File Handlers subsection with createfilehandler to Tkinter