[issue15288] Clarify the pkgutil.walk_packages() note

Brett Cannon added the comment: Ronan is right that it is all about finders, not importers per-se. I fixed the docs to not say "loader". -- ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue15288] Clarify the pkgutil.walk_packages() note

Brett Cannon added the comment: I changed to term to "loader" and linked to the glossary. I also added a versionchanged note for Python 3.3 so people are not too surprised that pkgutil no longer does what it did in Python 3.2. -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed _

[issue15288] Clarify the pkgutil.walk_packages() note

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 96f7926ea444 by Brett Cannon in branch 'default': Issue #15288: Clarify that pkgutil.walk_packages() and friends will no http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/96f7926ea444 -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python trac

[issue15288] Clarify the pkgutil.walk_packages() note

Ronan Lamy added the comment: It seems that most, if not all, uses of "importer" in pkgutil refer to finders, e.g. ImpImporter is a actually only a finder, not an importer. So s/importer/finder/ is needed, and perhaps also a note explaining that ImpImporter isn't in fact an importer, in addit

[issue15288] Clarify the pkgutil.walk_packages() note

Brett Cannon added the comment: Probably linking the term "importers" into the glossary should be enough. -- nosy: +brett.cannon ___ Python tracker ___ _

[issue15288] Clarify the pkgutil.walk_packages() note

New submission from Chris Jerdonek : The note at the end of the pkgutil.walk_packages() (and iter_modules()) documentation can be improved somewhat: http://docs.python.org/dev/library/pkgutil.html#pkgutil.walk_packages For example, "importers" aren't referenced earlier in the documentation of