[Python-checkins] [3.9] bpo-42811: Update importlib.utils.resolve_name() docs to use __spec__.parent (GH-24100) (GH-24149)

[miss-islington]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8c3914aef47e6e5a31b48a0b1f165ec3f4dc4c98
commit: 8c3914aef47e6e5a31b48a0b1f165ec3f4dc4c98
branch: 3.9
author: Yair Frid <fridyair at gmail.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2021-01-07T10:06:13-08:00
summary:

[3.9] bpo-42811: Update importlib.utils.resolve_name() docs to use __spec__.parent (GH-24100) (GH-24149)



This is a backport of 
https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/24100

Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:brettcannon

files:
A Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-07-12-08-59.bpo-42811.ePF7EC.rst
M Doc/library/importlib.rst

diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
index 305bb54d5271d..cb2a5686a95a5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
@@ -1473,7 +1473,7 @@ an :term:`importer`.
 
    If  **name** has no leading dots, then **name** is simply returned. This
    allows for usage such as
-   ``importlib.util.resolve_name('sys', __package__)`` without doing a
+   ``importlib.util.resolve_name('sys', __spec__.parent)`` without doing a
    check to see if the **package** argument is needed.
 
    :exc:`ImportError` is raised if **name** is a relative module name but
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-07-12-08-59.bpo-42811.ePF7EC.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-07-12-08-59.bpo-42811.ePF7EC.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..179c0655c7068
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-07-12-08-59.bpo-42811.ePF7EC.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Updated importlib.utils.resolve_name() doc to use __spec__.parent instead of
+__package__. (Thanks Yair Frid.)