'Should include "_ssl" somewhere in the message?'  Exactly so.  If a given
import statement imports 30 items, it would be helpful to know which one
caused the hickup.  Thanks!

On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:28 PM Steve Dower <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:

>
> Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org> added the comment:
>
> You mean like this:
>
> >>> import _ssl
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> ImportError: DLL load failed: The specified module could not be found.
>
> Should include "_ssl" somewhere in the message? That's easy enough, but
> it's never been what anyone else has meant when they've asked for this, so
> I assumed you wanted the more helpful message (where it tells you exactly
> which DLL is missing - libcrypto-1_1-x64.dll in this case - and *that's*
> the one we can't do).
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