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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-01-28 10:00:16 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-01-28 10:00:16 (GMT) |
| commit | 46735c7e101753769e31c69a36d0030bb056a162 (patch) | |
| tree | 9e85cecdbcabff29efc3eaf351cc4ca6d308bf4a | |
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bpo-39393: Misleading error message on dependent DLL resolution failure (GH-18093)
(cherry picked from commit 13c1c3556f2c12d0be2af890fabfbf44280b845c)
Co-authored-by: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-01-20-23-42-53.bpo-39393.gWlJDG.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c | 5 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-01-20-23-42-53.bpo-39393.gWlJDG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-01-20-23-42-53.bpo-39393.gWlJDG.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..025b7e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-01-20-23-42-53.bpo-39393.gWlJDG.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +Improve the error message when attempting to load a DLL with unresolved +dependencies. diff --git a/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c b/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c index 77492e6..4027bdb 100644 --- a/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c +++ b/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c @@ -1311,8 +1311,9 @@ static PyObject *load_library(PyObject *self, PyObject *args) if (err == ERROR_MOD_NOT_FOUND) { PyErr_Format(PyExc_FileNotFoundError, - ("Could not find module '%.500S'. Try using " - "the full path with constructor syntax."), + ("Could not find module '%.500S' (or one of its " + "dependencies). Try using the full path with " + "constructor syntax."), nameobj); return NULL; } else if (err) { |