[Python-Dev] patch for review: unittest ImportError handling

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Wed Apr 14 16:53:08 CEST 2010


Michael Foord wrote:
> Changing the error message to provide more useful information, possibly
> including the original traceback, would certainly avoid the potential
> for incompatibility. I'd be interested in seeing what other folks here
> on python-dev think.

Without looking at the details, my question is whether this can be
ignored in 2.x and fixed for 3.x by setting __cause__ appropriately
(i.e. by using the "raise from" syntax).

Cheers,
Nick.

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