[issue28425] Python3 ignores __init__.py that are links to /dev/null

[Brett Cannon]

Brett Cannon added the comment:

Those results are expected as passing in a file by path means it's just read by open() and then passed to exec() while the others pass through import itself which has the os.path.isfile() check.

Since this is a change from Python 2.7 I would be willing to look at a patch that loosened things that was fully backwards-compatible, but it would be an enhancement and not a bugfix.

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