From: Josh Cannon <joshdcannon@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 16:30:17 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Pedantic rewording of why relative importing doesn't work in main modules (GH-136846)
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Pedantic rewording of why relative importing doesn't work in main modules (GH-136846)

Pedantically reword the section about relative imports and main modules.
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diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst b/Doc/tutorial/modules.rst
index 47bf7547b4ae..f8105cd5441f 100644
--- 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.