Absolute imports fail in some cases where relative imports would work

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend, documentation

Research direction

Start with the migrated BPO issue 25294 and its 12-message discussion; no source files or tests are named in the issue. Trace the reported absolute-versus-relative import behavior and the Documentation and Library components, then define completion as a documented or tested resolution of that case.

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Description

docs stdlib type-bug
BPO 25294
Nosy @brettcannon, @ncoghlan, @ericsnowcurrently

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GitHub fields:

assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2015-10-02.02:23:44.142>
labels = ['type-bug', 'library', 'docs']
title = 'Absolute imports fail in some cases where relative imports would work'
updated_at = <Date 2015-10-07.04:08:36.112>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/PatrickMaupin'

bugs.python.org fields:

activity = <Date 2015-10-07.04:08:36.112>
actor = 'ncoghlan'
assignee = 'docs@python'
closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Documentation', 'Library (Lib)']
creation = <Date 2015-10-02.02:23:44.142>
creator = 'Patrick Maupin'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 25294
keywords = []
message_count = 12.0
messages = ['252078', '252209', '252229', '252253', '252254', '252327', '252337', '252346', '252353', '252360', '252451', '252452']
nosy_count = 7.0
nosy_names = ['brett.cannon', 'ncoghlan', 'docs@python', 'eric.snow', 'Patrick Maupin', 'flatsieve', 'J Richard Snape']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = None
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = 'behavior'
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue25294'
versions = ['Python 2.7', 'Python 3.2', 'Python 3.3', 'Python 3.4', 'Python 3.5', 'Python 3.6']

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