[Python-Dev] ImportWarning flood

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> I tried to implement Jean-Paul Calderone's idea for the following patch,
> plagiarizing Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve's error text. It delays import
> warning until end of search for modules, but remembers how many
> potential modules (candidates without __init__.py) it didn't import. I
> didn't really try to analyze any conditions, instead I simply assumed
> that wherever ImportWarning would be issued, we have a suitable
> candidate, and saved it on the stack. If nothing is found, Python emits
> ImportWarning right before ImportError, and explains what happened.
> Please let me know if this would work and if anything needs to be done
> for this patch to be accepted.

Please notice that there is also python.org/sf/1515361

I had no time to compare this with your patch, yet.

Regards,
Martin