Nick Coghlan added the comment: I vaguely recall discussing that change, and my recollection is that it was deliberate in order to evict improperly configured modules - we didn't count it as a significant compatibility break because it solely affected an error handling path.
I guess we never thought to check if the old misbehaviour was formally documented. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue24081> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com