Documentation Recommends Deprecated `imp` Module

[camconn]

BPO	26135
Nosy	@orsenthil

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title = 'Documentation Recommends Deprecated `imp` Module'
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[camconn]

The documentation detailing modules recommends using the deprecated imp module in section 6.1. Instead, it should recommend importlib, which imp was deprecated in favor of in Python 3.4.

The portion of the documentation that says this is in the gray aside box at the bottom of Section 6.1 immediately before Section 6.1.1.

These are the pages that have this issue:
Python 3.4: https://docs.python.org/3.4/tutorial/modules.html#more-on-modules
Python 3.5: https://docs.python.org/3.5/tutorial/modules.html#more-on-modules
Python 3.6: https://docs.python.org/3.6/tutorial/modules.html#more-on-modules

[python-dev]

New changeset 31e6d4d25b8e by Senthil Kumaran in branch '3.5':
bpo-26135 - In the tutorial section on modules, reference importlib.reload instead of imp.reload.
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/31e6d4d25b8e

New changeset 6636d688bbd3 by Senthil Kumaran in branch 'default':
merge from 3.5
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/6636d688bbd3

[orsenthil]

Thank you for the report. Fixed in the active versions of python (3.5 and 3.6). 3.4 was in security fix mode. Although, it can see important documentation bug-fixes, this isn't bug-fix as far as 3.4 version is concerned. So, I didn't make the change in 3.4.