From a failing unit test with coverage.py, I noticed what seems to be a slight typo in the error message when a module cannot be imported:

diff -r 1186d68715cc Lib/imp.py
--- a/Lib/imp.py	Wed Jul 04 19:33:45 2012 -0700
+++ b/Lib/imp.py	Thu Jul 05 11:50:25 2012 -0700
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@
                 continue
             break  # Break out of outer loop when breaking out of inner loop.
     else:
-        raise ImportError('No module name {!r}'.format(name), name=name)
+        raise ImportError('No module named {!r}'.format(name), name=name)
 
     encoding = None
     if mode == 'U':

Note the missing "d". This makes it match similar existing error messages:

Lib/importlib/_bootstrap.py
1238:_ERR_MSG = 'No module named {!r}'

Lib/modulefinder.py
185:        self.msgout(4, "raise ImportError: No module named", qname)
186:        raise ImportError("No module named " + qname)
198:                self.msgout(4, "raise ImportError: No module named", mname)
199:                raise ImportError("No module named " + mname)
215:                    raise ImportError("No module named " + subname)

Lib/runpy.py
106:        raise ImportError("No module named %s" % mod_name)

I wonder if this can be centralized to ensure that all code uses the exact same message?

I think this is just a simple typo and a consistency issue; not a grammatical issue.

The misspelled version was added in a recent commit:

[last: 0] marca@SCML-MarcA:~/dev/hg-repos/cpython$ hg log -r 76455
changeset:   76455:085cf1480cfe
user:        Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>
date:        Sat Apr 21 21:09:46 2012 -0400
summary:     Issue #13959: Re-implement imp.find_module() in Lib/imp.py.

Link to issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue13959

Attaching patch

Patch with Brett's comments

Patch looks fine. Next time I have python-dev time I will commit it.

New changeset 75831951a6b5 by Brett Cannon in branch 'default':
Issue #15256: Re-use the ImportError exception message as defined by
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/75831951a6b5

Thanks for the patch, Marc!