[3.14] Pedantic rewording of why relative importing doesn't work in main modules (GH-136846) (#136940)

miss-islington · thejcannon · web-flow · commit f86a59549b4b · 2025-07-21T09:58:27.000-07:00
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 4b68289) Co-authored-by: Josh Cannon <joshdcannon@gmail.com>
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.
 
 
