New submission from Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com>: Catching ImportError in order to switch to an alternate implementation can mask real failures in imported modules. Attaching the module name as an attribute would allow this to be handled correctly by doing something like:
try: import simplejson except ImportError as err: if err.module_name != 'simplejson': raise <backup plan> See http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2011-February/009209.html ---------- components: Interpreter Core messages: 129729 nosy: ncoghlan priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: Include module name on ImportError type: feature request versions: Python 3.3 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11356> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
