[ python-Bugs-976608 ] Unhelpful error message when mtime of a module is -1

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Bugs item #976608, was opened at 2004-06-21 02:26
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Category: Python Interpreter Core
Group: Python 2.3
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Fixed
Priority: 3
Submitted By: Peter Maxwell (pm67nz)
>Assigned to: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Summary: Unhelpful error message when mtime of a module is -1

Initial Comment:
This fragment of import.c:

  mtime = PyOS_GetLastModificationTime(pathname, fp);
  if (mtime == (time_t)(-1))
     return NULL;

is missing a PyErr_SetString(), so in at least one circumstance (an 
__init__.py file with an apparent mtime of 1 Jan 1970 created by a 
bug in darcs on debian linux) it produces "SystemError: NULL 
result without error in PyObject_Call".

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>Comment By: Neal Norwitz (nnorwitz)
Date: 2005-10-02 21:52

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Thanks for the info, you were correct.

Checked in as:
 * Misc/NEWS something large, 1.1193.2.119
 * Python/import.c 2.245, 2.240.2.3

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