[New-bugs-announce] [issue16846] relative import solution

[FizzledOut]

New submission from FizzledOut:

Instead of giving the error message " Attempted relative import in non-package", simply process the line!

from . import Example

whether or not the file is __main__, it should be able to go up one directory, if possible, and try to import Example.py.  It makes no sense that this cannot be done.

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components: Windows
messages: 178913
nosy: Fixpythonbugs
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: relative import solution
type: resource usage
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4, Python 3.5

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