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Ideally, Docs should not have to import anything in order to operate.
Right now docs.get
uses the _import
method of the docs.import.Import
object, which uses the __import__
built-in in.
There are legitimate reasons why you might want to perform an import. For example, if you want to get a C extension's docstring, you're pretty much stuck with grabbing the __doc__
attribute of the extension after it's imported. So, while we don't want to kill off all imports, for security reasons, we generally want to discourage it.
docs.get
should probably be able to operate without import by default, and execution with imports should probably require a special kwarg.