diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
index 8635e2bc66f3a8..304da984ace6b6 100644
--- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
@@ -1439,7 +1439,7 @@ an :term:`importer`.
 
    If  **name** has no leading dots, then **name** is simply returned. This
    allows for usage such as
-   ``importlib.util.resolve_name('sys', __package__)`` without doing a
+   ``importlib.util.resolve_name('sys', __spec__.parent)`` without doing a
    check to see if the **package** argument is needed.
 
    :exc:`ValueError` is raised if **name** is a relative module name but
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-04-22-14-22.bpo-42811.HY2beA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-04-22-14-22.bpo-42811.HY2beA.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..768508e0ce1c19
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-04-22-14-22.bpo-42811.HY2beA.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Updated importlib.utils.resolve_name() doc to use __spec__.parent
+instead of __package__. (Thanks Yair Frid.)