[Python-checkins] cpython: Have importlib use the repr of a module name in error messages.

[brett.cannon]

http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/9f9b7b656761
changeset:   68886:9f9b7b656761
user:        Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>
date:        Wed Mar 23 16:06:00 2011 -0700
summary:
  Have importlib use the repr of a module name in error messages.

This makes it obvious that an import failed because of some extraneous
whitespace (e.g., a newline).

This is a partial fix for issue #8754.

files:
  Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py |  2 +-
  Misc/NEWS                   |  2 ++
  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


diff --git a/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py b/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py
--- a/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py
+++ b/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py
@@ -758,7 +758,7 @@
 
 _IMPLICIT_META_PATH = [BuiltinImporter, FrozenImporter, _DefaultPathFinder]
 
-_ERR_MSG = 'No module named {}'
+_ERR_MSG = 'No module named {!r}'
 
 def _gcd_import(name, package=None, level=0):
     """Import and return the module based on its name, the package the call is
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #8754: Have importlib use the repr of a module name in error messages.
+
 - Issue #11591: Prevent "import site" from modifying sys.path when python
   was started with -S.
 

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Repository URL: http://hg.python.org/cpython