This should really be a comment.

Doc/reference/simple_stmts.rst

@@ -743,10 +743,13 @@ raise a :exc:`SyntaxError`.
 the module search path is carried out differently.  The sequence of identifiers
 up to the last dot is used to find a "package"; the final identifier is then
 searched inside the package.  A package is generally a subdirectory of a
-directory on ``sys.path`` that has a file :file:`__init__.py`. [XXX Can't be
-bothered to spell this out right now; see the URL
-http://www.python.org/doc/essays/packages.html for more details, also about how
-the module search works from inside a package.]
+directory on ``sys.path`` that has a file :file:`__init__.py`.
+
+.. 
+   [XXX Can't be
+   bothered to spell this out right now; see the URL
+   http://www.python.org/doc/essays/packages.html for more details, also about how
+   the module search works from inside a package.]
 
 .. index:: builtin: __import__