1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py b/Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py
index adfb8ce..44a5487 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py
@@ -499,6 +499,16 @@ class CmdLineTest(unittest.TestCase):
             self.assertNotIn(b'is a package', err)
             self.assertNotIn(b'Traceback', err)
 
+    def test_hint_when_triying_to_import_a_py_file(self):
+        with support.temp_dir() as script_dir, \
+                support.change_cwd(path=script_dir):
+            # Create invalid *.pyc as empty file
+            with open('asyncio.py', 'wb'):
+                pass
+            err = self.check_dash_m_failure('asyncio.py')
+            self.assertIn(b"Try using 'asyncio' instead "
+                          b"of 'asyncio.py' as the module name", err)
+
     def test_dash_m_init_traceback(self):
         # These were wrapped in an ImportError and tracebacks were
         # suppressed; see Issue 14285