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3 changes: 3 additions & 0 deletions Doc/library/importlib.rst
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Expand Up @@ -1250,6 +1250,9 @@ 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
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