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Expand Up @@ -425,9 +425,9 @@ your package (expressed in terms of a hierarchical filesystem):
When importing the package, Python searches through the directories on
``sys.path`` looking for the package subdirectory.

The :file:`__init__.py` files are required to make Python treat the directories
as containing packages; this is done to prevent directories with a common name,
such as ``string``, from unintentionally hiding valid modules that occur later
The :file:`__init__.py` files are required to make Python treat directories
containing the file as packages. This prevents directories with a common name,
such as ``string``, unintentionally hiding valid modules that occur later
on the module search path. In the simplest case, :file:`__init__.py` can just be
an empty file, but it can also execute initialization code for the package or
set the ``__all__`` variable, described later.
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