Christoph Groth <christ...@grothesque.org> added the comment:
> Read Eric's message before mine.
Of course I read it, I wouldn't have asked otherwise. Eric mentions an older
message ("see msg182332") that *predates* your judgment that "outside importlib
t
Christoph Groth <christ...@grothesque.org> added the comment:
My curiosity was piqued when I saw ModuleNotFoundError, so I decided to look it
up. This led me to this page and I read the complete discussion. I still did
not understand the decision, so I allowed myself to ask, also bec
Christoph Groth <christ...@grothesque.org> added the comment:
In the above, please replace "understand the decision" by "understand the
usefulness of it".
In the above discussion, as an alternative to a new exception, it was proposed
to add an attribu
Christoph Groth <christ...@grothesque.org> added the comment:
I'm trying to understand why ModuleNotFoundError was added to 3.6. The "what's
new" entry links to this page.
Looking at the discussion, Guido said in 2013: "Right. Outside importlib there
shouldn't be
Christoph Groth <christ...@grothesque.org> added the comment:
Thank you, Chris, for your reply. If this is indeed the main use case of
ModuleNotFoundError, I respectfully suggest to document it better. The way
things are now, Python users who switch to 3.6 encounter this new exc
Christoph Groth <christ...@grothesque.org> added the comment:
Unfortunately I do not feel competent enough to submit a documentation patch
because I still do not understand why ModuleNotFoundError was added.
I don't want to bother you further with this. Thank you all for your prompt
r
Christoph Groth added the comment:
Hello. I would like to point out a possible problem that this change to
CPython has introduced.
This change looks innocent, but it breaks the unwritten rule that the hash
value of a number (or actually any built-in immutable type!) in Python depends
only
Christoph Groth added the comment:
> What concrete action would you propose that the Python core devs take at this
> point?
Nothing for now.
I stumbled across this issue through
https://gitlab.kwant-project.org/kwant/tinyarray/-/issues/20 and had the
impression that the aspect
