Circular import problem in 6.0?!

[ionelmc]

So I'm getting this incredibly vague error for some tests in pytest-cov:

ImportError while importing test module '/tmp/pytest-of-travis/pytest-0/test_dist_not_collocated0/dir2/test_dist_not_collocated.py'.

Hint: make sure your test modules/packages have valid Python names.

Traceback:

/home/travis/build/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/.tox/py36-pytest60-xdist33-coverage52/lib/python3.6/importlib/__init__.py:126: in import_module

    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)

__init__.py:5: in <module>

    from . import collect

E   ImportError: cannot import name 'collect'

Only happens with xdist on.

Hoping this is enough clue to the problem, if not I guess I'll look some more and make a simple reproducer ...

[blueyed]

Looks related to #6981 (comment).

[nicoddemus]

Thanks @ionelmc,

Just to confirm, are you using pytest-xdist's option rsyncdirs?

If so this PR should fix it: pytest-dev/pytest-xdist#558