[issue17636] Modify IMPORT_FROM to fallback on sys.modules

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

Le 10/10/2014 00:11, Nick Coghlan a écrit :
> 
> Nick Coghlan added the comment:
> 
> If I understand your question correctly, then yes, __package__ should be
> used when converting explicit relative imports to absolute ones.
> 
> To write a test, run a submodule that needs the new fallback feature via
> the -m switch (it will fail if using __name__)

I'm not sure it would. __package__ is not looked up on the module (since
precisely we failed importing it) but on the parent package (which is
passed to IMPORT_FROM).

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