New submission from David Szotten:
```
>>> __import__('fabric.', fromlist=[u'api'])
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
```
accidentally ended up with something like this via some module that was using
`unicode_literals`. stumped me for a second until i realised that my variable
was a string, but not `str`. would be nice with a custom error message if this
is a unicode string, explicitly mentioning that these must not be unicode or
similar
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messages: 220267
nosy: davidszotten
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: "TypeError: Item in ``from list'' not a string" message
type: enhancement
versions: Python 2.7
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