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Author barry
Recipients barry, brett.cannon, eric.araujo, eric.snow, georg.brandl, larry, ncoghlan, pitrou, python-dev, skrah
Date 2012-07-31.20:43:22
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On Jul 31, 2012, at 08:30 PM, Brett Cannon wrote:

>The import path definition is a little misleading as sys.path is only
>inferred when 'path' has None passed in. Otherwise 'path' is what __path__ in
>a package is set to, so technically sys.path never even comes into play
>except by choice from PathFinder as it just chooses to treat None to mean
>sys.path.

Do you think the glossary entry needs to be so precise?  It may be difficult
to explain all that in a concise definition.  Maybe it's best to just remove
the "During import...attribute" bit?
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