When dealing with implicit relative imports of the form "import <dotted_as_names> as...", the 2to3 import fixer will rewrite them as "from . import <dotted_as_names> as...".

This is invalid syntax. Here's an example:

$ tree package/
package/
├── __init__.py
├── rootmod.py
└── subpackage
    ├── __init__.py
    └── mod.py

1 directory, 4 files

$ cat package/rootmod.py  # this is the only nonempty file
import subpackage.mod as my_name

$ python package/rootmod.py

$ 2to3 -w -f import package/
RefactoringTool: Refactored package/rootmod.py
--- package/rootmod.py	(original)
+++ package/rootmod.py	(refactored)
@@ -1 +1 @@
-import subpackage.mod as my_name
+from . import subpackage.mod as my_name
RefactoringTool: Files that were modified:
RefactoringTool: package/rootmod.py

$ python package/rootmod.py
  File "package/rootmod.py", line 1
    from . import subpackage.mod as my_name
                            ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Probably the easiest way to rewrite this is "from .subpackage import mod as my_name".