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  r81380 | brett.cannon | 2010-05-20 11:37:55 -0700 (Thu, 20 May 2010) | 8 lines

  Turned out that if you used explicit relative import syntax
  (e.g. from .os import sep) and it failed, import would still try the implicit
  relative import semantics of an absolute import (from os import sep). That's
  not right, so when level is negative, only do explicit relative import
  semantics.

  Fixes issue #7902. Thanks to Meador Inge for the patch.
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 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #7902: When using explicit relative import syntax, don't try
+  implicit relative import semantics.
+
 - Issue #7079: Fix a possible crash when closing a file object while using
   it from another thread.  Patch by Daniel Stutzbach.