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Pedantic rewording of why relative importing doesn't work in main modules (GH-136846)

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Pedantically reword the section about relative imports and main modules.
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@ -579,8 +579,8 @@ module for example, you might use::
from .. import formats
from ..filters import equalizer
Note that relative imports are based on the name of the current module. Since
the name of the main module is always ``"__main__"``, modules intended for use
Note that relative imports are based on the name of the current module's package.
Since the main module does not have a package, modules intended for use
as the main module of a Python application must always use absolute imports.