PyImport_Import was using the old import hack of sticking a dummy value into
fromlist to get __import__ to return the module desired. Now it uses the proper
approach of fetching the module from sys.modules.
Closes issue #9252. Thanks to Alexander Belopolsky for the bug report.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ab01f47..40c4cdd 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #9252: PyImport_Import no longer uses a fromlist hack to return the
+ module that was imported, but instead gets the module from sys.modules.
+
- Issue #9212: The range type_items now provides index() and count()
methods, to conform to the Sequence ABC. Patch by Daniel Urban and
Daniel Stutzbach.