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Author ncoghlan
Recipients cykerway, docs@python, eric.snow, ncoghlan
Date 2018-04-06.14:30:40
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https://bugs.python.org/issue29258 is an existing issue for the PEP 420 limitation (it also notes why fixing that implicitly is a potential problem)

I've retitled this issue to be specifically about the misleading docs for the "prefix" option (and updated the metadata accordingly).

"Recursive descent in pkgutil.walk_packages depends on sys.path" would be a reasonable title for an issue to actually fix the operation to use a better algorithm based on newer importlib APIs, but I haven't filed that myself.
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