Suggestion for improved ImportError message

Kent Tenney ktenney at gmail.com
Wed Aug 13 16:55:38 EDT 2008


Howdy,

I was just bit by

from image import annotate

ImportError: cannot import name annotate

I found the problem via 

import image
print image.__file__

which made it clear that the wrong image module had been found.

It would be nice if ImportError announced this up front.

cannot import name annotate from /usr/<snip>/image.pyc

Thanks,
Kent




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