[New-bugs-announce] [issue15316] runpy swallows ImportError information with relative imports

[Chris Jerdonek]

New submission from Chris Jerdonek <chris.jerdonek at gmail.com>:

With the following package directory structure--

foo/
    __init__.py
    __main__.py
        from foo import bar
    bar.py
        print('***')
        raise ImportError('test...')

Running--

$ ./python.exe -m foo

Yields--

***
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File ".../python/cpython/cpython/Lib/runpy.py", line 162, in _run_module_as_main
    "__main__", fname, loader, pkg_name)
  File ".../python/cpython/cpython/Lib/runpy.py", line 75, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File "./foo/__main__.py", line 1, in <module>
    from foo import bar
ImportError: cannot import name bar
$

The exception text gets swallowed.

Changing the relative import "from foo import bar" to "import foo.bar" does show the exception text.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 165166
nosy: cjerdonek
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: runpy swallows ImportError information with relative imports
versions: Python 3.3

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