Brett Cannon <brett@python.org> added the comment: It's actually not surprising that imp works this way: it predates packages. Because the semantics (I assume) have been like this for ages I say we document the current behavior (it's easy to work around) and simply continue to replace imp functionality with importlib ones that are more modern and reasonable. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11676> _______________________________________