ModuleFinder does not resolve ".." correctly

[mkleehammer]

BPO	37796
Nosy	@mkleehammer
Files	test.tar.gz: test case

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[mkleehammer]

The modulefinder module does not handle relative directories properly. The error I found is when one subpackage attempts to import from a sibling subpackage using the form

from ..language import (
    DirectiveDefinitionNode,
    ...
)

In this example, it would report "language.DirectiveDefinitionNode" is missing.

It correctly resolves the names when importing modules, but when an import fails because it is a variable or function, it records the name incorrectly and cannot filter it out later.

I've attached a small test case and there is a README describing the test and results.