[Python-ideas] Re: Improve error message for trying to import itself

In your answer, it sounds like the code would be written by the person developing a program. Or they could possibly have the importhook a separate module, which can be imported whenever you’d like to have it.

Maybe I misunderstood you, but this wouldn’t really be optimal. I think most people would like to get the part about shadowing imports without having to write any code or import a module that sends such error messages if a module might be shadowed. That removes the convenience of having something like that be a standard feature of the language itself.

Would it be possible to make the exceptionhook a standard part of python, so it’s there by default?