[Python-Dev] Fix import errors to have data (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Jul 27 19:07:10 CEST 2004

Another possibility could be to add a ChainedImportError (or SubImportError?) which would derive from ImportError. The module which imports a broken module would get the normal ImportError. If the module doesn't catch the exception, it would get converted to this new type of ImportError.

I don't know how easy this would be to implement, but I think it would solve Jim's problem and perhaps be easier to deal with?

Having had the recent opportunity to root around in Java code that chains exceptions like this a lot, I think I'm against that approach.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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