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Author	j13r
Recipients	docs@python, j13r
Date	2020-06-07.11:08:14
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Message-id	<1591528094.81.0.814829435189.issue40899@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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Content
https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#__import__ and https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importlib.import_module do not list which Exceptions are raised in case the module cannot be imported. The two exceptions are listed here https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#ImportError ModuleNotFoundError Could you add a half-sentence "and raises an ModuleNotFoundError if import was unsuccessful." to the function docs?

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#__import__
and 
https://docs.python.org/3/library/importlib.html#importlib.import_module
do not list which Exceptions are raised in case the module cannot be imported.

The two exceptions are listed here
https://docs.python.org/3/library/exceptions.html#ImportError
ModuleNotFoundError

Could you add a half-sentence "and raises an ModuleNotFoundError if import was unsuccessful." to the function docs?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2020-06-07 11:08:14	j13r	set	recipients: + j13r, docs@python
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