From 7ea13ec8a8795c7b4302076b88245e39431f66e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Cannon Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 11:30:17 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Pedantic rewording of why relative importing doesn't work in main modules (GH-136846) Pedantically reword the section about relative imports and main modules. (cherry picked from commit 4b68289ca6954b8d135e2ee2344e67fae38239fd) Co-authored-by: Josh Cannon --- Doc/tutorial/modules.rst | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst index 47bf7547b4ae1d..f8105cd5441fec 100644 --- a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst +++ b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst @@ -579,8 +579,8 @@ module for example, you might use:: from .. import formats from ..filters import equalizer -Note that relative imports are based on the name of the current module. Since -the name of the main module is always ``"__main__"``, modules intended for use +Note that relative imports are based on the name of the current module's package. +Since the main module does not have a package, modules intended for use as the main module of a Python application must always use absolute imports.