Feature Requests item #1559549, was opened at 2006-09-15 21:55 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by loewis You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=1559549&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Python Interpreter Core Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Ned Batchelder (nedbat) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) >Summary: ImportError needs attributes for module and file name Initial Comment: Exceptions would be more useful if they had some structured information attached to them. For example, an ImportError could have the name of the module that could not be imported. This would make it possible to deal with exceptions in more powerful ways. For more discussion: http://www.nedbatchelder.com/blog/200609.html#e20060906T055924 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2006-09-16 19:52 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Exceptions do have structured informations, for example py> try: ... open("/tmp/xxx") ... except IOError, e: ... print e.__dict__ ... {'errno': 2, 'args': (2, 'No such file or directory'), 'strerror': 'No such file or directory', 'filename': '/tmp/xxx'} It's just that ImportError doesn't, so I'm retitling this request to restrict attention to ImportError. If you have other proposals for specific information that should be on specific exceptions, please submit a separate issue. Would you like to work on this specific problem? I think ImportError should get a module attribute (always set), and a filename attribute (set only if a file was selected, yet failed to import; otherwise set to None). It probably will require some refactoring of C code to simplify raising ImportError in the importing code. Explicit raises of ImportError should also be considered; those in the standard library should be fixed to include atleast the module; raising ImportError without giving a module should set the module to None. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=355470&aid=1559549&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
