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Author barry
Recipients Arfrever, Guido.van.Rossum, asvetlov, barry, brett.cannon, chris.jerdonek, cvrebert, eric.snow, ezio.melotti, gvanrossum, pitrou, python-dev, serhiy.storchaka, theller
Date 2013-07-02.12:03:00
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On Jul 02, 2013, at 07:16 AM, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:

>If most user code should catch a ModuleNotFoundError exception, perhaps it
>will be better rename old ImportError to ImportlibError (or ImportingError,
>or ImportMachineryError, or BaseImportError) and new ModuleNotFoundError to
>ImportError. This will left most existing user code untouched.

I urge some caution here.  I don't know that the above will cause problems,
but I do think you're walking into PEP territory.  I would feel much more
comfortable with an analysis based on testing existing third party code.
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2013-07-02 12:03:00barrysetrecipients: + barry, gvanrossum, brett.cannon, theller, pitrou, ezio.melotti, Arfrever, cvrebert, asvetlov, chris.jerdonek, python-dev, eric.snow, serhiy.storchaka, Guido.van.Rossum
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