[issue13192] ImportError silences low-level OS errors

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> Are you suggesting raising the OSError (or something else) rather than
> an ImportError?  If so, would it make sense to chain the exception
> instead.  That way the existing code that expects ImportError
> continues to work

Does any existing code rely on ImportError being raised when there's a
rare OS error of some sort?

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