[New-bugs-announce] [issue37444] Differing exception between builtins and importlib when importing beyond top-level package

[Brett Cannon]

New submission from Brett Cannon <brett at python.org>:

builtins.__import__() raises ValueError (as it did in Python 2.7) while importlib.__import__() raises ImportError (which makes more sense to me).

Found by Ben Lewis.

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components: Interpreter Core, Library (Lib)
messages: 346855
nosy: Ben Lewis2, brett.cannon, eric.snow, ncoghlan
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Differing exception between builtins and importlib when importing beyond top-level package
versions: Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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