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standard_library.install_aliases() doesn't publish tkinter.simpledialog.askstring in 2.7

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#435 opened on Feb 2, 2019

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$ python Python 2.7.15 (default, Oct 1 2018, 15:59:56) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.2)] on darwin Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> from future import standard_library >>> standard_library.install_aliases() >>> from tkinter.simpledialog import askstring Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in ImportError: cannot import name askstring

This reproduces with both future 0.16.0 and 0.17.1.

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Investigate the standard library.install aliases() function to understand how it remaps Python 2 module names to Python 3 names, particularly for tkinter.simpledialog.askstring. Check the future library source code for the aliases mapping and debug why askstring is not being exported.
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