bpo-32674: Improve the docstring for __import__ (GH-5339) (GH-5488)
Clarify that the level argument is used to determine whether to
perform absolute or relative imports: 0 is absolute, while a positive number
is the number of parent directories to search relative to the current module.
(cherry picked from commit 461d225b195eec5269f317323b41115516144c41)
Co-authored-by: oldk <oldk1331@users.noreply.github.com>
diff --git a/Python/bltinmodule.c b/Python/bltinmodule.c
index d8971be..94f2908 100644
--- a/Python/bltinmodule.c
+++ b/Python/bltinmodule.c
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@
"__import__(name, globals=None, locals=None, fromlist=(), level=0) -> module\n\
\n\
Import a module. Because this function is meant for use by the Python\n\
-interpreter and not for general use it is better to use\n\
+interpreter and not for general use, it is better to use\n\
importlib.import_module() to programmatically import a module.\n\
\n\
The globals argument is only used to determine the context;\n\
@@ -326,8 +326,8 @@
empty list to emulate ``import name''.\n\
When importing a module from a package, note that __import__('A.B', ...)\n\
returns package A when fromlist is empty, but its submodule B when\n\
-fromlist is not empty. Level is used to determine whether to perform \n\
-absolute or relative imports. 0 is absolute while a positive number\n\
+fromlist is not empty. The level argument is used to determine whether to\n\
+perform absolute or relative imports: 0 is absolute, while a positive number\n\
is the number of parent directories to search relative to the current module.");