gh-92994: Clarify importlib "check" example (GH-92995)

Fixes GH-92994 (cherry picked from commit e39cd76) Co-authored-by: Shantanu <12621235+hauntsaninja@users.noreply.github.com>
python · May 23, 2022 · 936eefc · 936eefc
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diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
@@ -1749,6 +1749,9 @@ Checking if a module can be imported
 
 If you need to find out if a module can be imported without actually doing the
 import, then you should use :func:`importlib.util.find_spec`.
+
+Note that if ``name`` is a submodule (contains a dot),
+:func:`importlib.util.find_spec` will import the parent module.
 ::
 
   import importlib.util