[Python-ideas] class ModuleNotFoundError(ImportError)

[Nick Coghlan]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 7:28 AM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> What might perhaps help is if ImportError had the name of the module
> that could not be imported as an attribute. Then the code could be
> rewritten as:
>
> try:
>  import simplejson
> except ImportError, err:
>  if e.module_name != 'simplejson':
>    raise
>  <backup plan>

Logged the suggestion: http://bugs.python.org/issue11356

Perhaps it it worth revisiting the old "import x or y or z as
whatever" syntax proposal for 3.3, since it could handle this idiom
internally (although deciding what, if anything to do for "from" style
imports is a hassle)

Cheers,
Nick.

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