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authorMiss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com>2021-01-07 10:07:48 -0800
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bpo-42811: Update importlib.utils.resolve_name() docs to use __spec__.parent (GH-24100) (GH-24144)
Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:brettcannon (cherry picked from commit ff8458b918050168acda1ad6d079f52b8effa821) Co-authored-by: Yair Frid <fridyair@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/importlib.rst2
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-04-22-14-22.bpo-42811.HY2beA.rst2
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diff --git a/Doc/library/importlib.rst b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
index 8635e2bc66f..304da984ace 100644
--- a/Doc/library/importlib.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/importlib.rst
@@ -1439,7 +1439,7 @@ 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:`ValueError` is raised if **name** is a relative module name but
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-04-22-14-22.bpo-42811.HY2beA.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-04-22-14-22.bpo-42811.HY2beA.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..768508e0ce1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-01-04-22-14-22.bpo-42811.HY2beA.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Updated importlib.utils.resolve_name() doc to use __spec__.parent
+instead of __package__. (Thanks Yair Frid.)