Michael Foord <mich...@voidspace.org.uk> added the comment: I'm unhappy with a straight change in behaviour because it will break code that is currently catching AttributeError.
A slightly less invasive change would be to raise an AttributeError if the module doesn't exist, otherwise letting the original error propagate. That means distinguishing between a module not existing and an ImportError raised whilst importing the module. Example code that does this by walking the stack: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/twisted/python/reflect.py#L382 In addition we could add a new method that loads a test from name, returning an 'ErrorHolder' if loading the test fails. (A TestCase that reraises the original error when run - test discovery already does this in fact so that a test module failing to load doesn't halt discovery.) ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7559> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
