[issue25330] Docs for pkgutil.get_data inconsistent with semantics

[Paul Ganssle]

Paul Ganssle <p.ganssle at gmail.com> added the comment:

I'm not sure if this warrants a separate issue, but I also notice this in the documentation:

> If the package cannot be located or loaded, or it uses a loader which does not support get_data, then None is returned. In particular, the loader for namespace packages does not support get_data.

But in reality this seems to raise a FileNotFoundError:


    >>> import pkgutil
    >>> data = pkgutil.get_data('dateutil.zoneinfo', 'dateutil-zoneinfo.tar.gz')
    >>> len(data)
    139671
    >>> data = pkgutil.get_data('dateutil.zoneinfo', 'foo-bar.tar.gz')
    FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/dateutil/zoneinfo/foo-bar.tar.gz'


Am I misunderstanding the documentation, or should the failure mode be corrected to specify that it raises an error?

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nosy: +p-ganssle
versions: +Python 3.7

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