Chris Angelico added the comment:
This still happens in current CPython, and doesn't even require a package:
rosuav@sikorsky:~$ echo 'from . import x' >syserr.py
rosuav@sikorsky:~$ python3 syserr.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "syserr.py", line 1, in <module>
from . import x
SystemError: Parent module '' not loaded, cannot perform relative import
This just caused some confusion for a student of mine who had migrated from
Python 2. Converting intra-package imports from "import spam" to "from . import
spam" made them work; converting a non-package import the same way caused this
problem. ImportError would be massively preferable.
But I'm not understanding something here. If I set __package__ inside the
module, the behaviour changes accordingly:
rosuav@sikorsky:~$ cat syserr.py
__package__ = 'sys'
from . import version
print(version)
rosuav@sikorsky:~$ python3 syserr.py
3.6.0a0 (default:ac94418299bd+, Jan 15 2016, 08:44:02)
[GCC 4.9.2]
Leaving __package__ unset has it implicitly be None. Whether it's None or '',
the package checks should simply not be made - see three lines above the line
Brett linked to (in today's code, that's
https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/ac94418299b/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py#l925
- hasn't changed). So I'm not sure why the checks are even happening. However,
that probably means more about my exploration and testing than it does about
the code; editing the text of the message doesn't result in a change, so I'm
obviously not updating the frozen version.
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nosy: +Rosuav
versions: +Python 3.5, Python 3.6
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