Let the doc of __import__ link to importlib (#9254).
importlib.import_module eschews a number of issues that __import__ has.
Reviewed by Brett Cannon. (The docstring of __import__ was already
updated in 3d490c3a019e, for #7397.)
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index b766a2e..edff106 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1387,7 +1387,7 @@
.. note::
This is an advanced function that is not needed in everyday Python
- programming.
+ programming, unlike :func:`importlib.import_module`.
This function is invoked by the :keyword:`import` statement. It can be
replaced (by importing the :mod:`builtins` module and assigning to
@@ -1437,15 +1437,8 @@
names.
If you simply want to import a module (potentially within a package) by name,
- you can call :func:`__import__` and then look it up in :data:`sys.modules`::
+ use :func:`importlib.import_module`.
- >>> import sys
- >>> name = 'foo.bar.baz'
- >>> __import__(name)
- <module 'foo' from ...>
- >>> baz = sys.modules[name]
- >>> baz
- <module 'foo.bar.baz' from ...>
.. rubric:: Footnotes