changeset:   68886:9f9b7b656761
user:        Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
date:        Wed Mar 23 16:06:00 2011 -0700
files:       Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py Misc/NEWS
description:
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.


diff -r c381b35e4f31 -r 9f9b7b656761 Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py
--- a/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py	Wed Mar 23 23:05:07 2011 +0100
+++ b/Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py	Wed Mar 23 16:06:00 2011 -0700
@@ -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 -r c381b35e4f31 -r 9f9b7b656761 Misc/NEWS
--- a/Misc/NEWS	Wed Mar 23 23:05:07 2011 +0100
+++ b/Misc/NEWS	Wed Mar 23 16:06:00 2011 -0700
@@ -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.