Christoph Groth added the comment:
> What concrete action would you propose that the Python core devs take at this
> point?
Nothing for now.
I stumbled across this issue through
https://gitlab.kwant-project.org/kwant/tinyarray/-/issues/20 and had the
impression that the aspect
Christoph Groth added the comment:
Hello. I would like to point out a possible problem that this change to
CPython has introduced.
This change looks innocent, but it breaks the unwritten rule that the hash
value of a number (or actually any built-in immutable type!) in Python depends
only
Christoph Groth added the comment:
Unfortunately I do not feel competent enough to submit a documentation patch
because I still do not understand why ModuleNotFoundError was added.
I don't want to bother you further with this. Thank you all for your prompt
replies. If you agree wi
Christoph Groth added the comment:
Thank you, Chris, for your reply. If this is indeed the main use case of
ModuleNotFoundError, I respectfully suggest to document it better. The way
things are now, Python users who switch to 3.6 encounter this new exception
during their work with the
Christoph Groth added the comment:
In the above, please replace "understand the decision" by "understand the
usefulness of it".
In the above discussion, as an alternative to a new exception, it was proposed
to add an attribute to ImportError ('reason'), but the
Christoph Groth added the comment:
My curiosity was piqued when I saw ModuleNotFoundError, so I decided to look it
up. This led me to this page and I read the complete discussion. I still did
not understand the decision, so I allowed myself to ask, also because I
believe that when new
Christoph Groth added the comment:
> Read Eric's message before mine.
Of course I read it, I wouldn't have asked otherwise. Eric mentions an older
message ("see msg182332") that *predates* your judgment that "outside importlib
there shouldn't be a need
Christoph Groth added the comment:
I'm trying to understand why ModuleNotFoundError was added to 3.6. The "what's
new" entry links to this page.
Looking at the discussion, Guido said in 2013: "Right. Outside importlib there
shouldn't be a need to distinguish
