Pedantic rewording of why relative importing doesn't work in main modules (GH-136846)

thejcannon · web-flow · commit 4b68289ca695 · 2025-07-21T09:30:17.000-07:00
Pedantically reword the section about relative imports and main modules.
diff --git 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.
 
 
