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authorMilan Oberkirch <zvyn@oberkirch.org>2017-06-14 21:34:50 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <brettcannon@users.noreply.github.com>2017-06-14 21:34:50 (GMT)
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bpo-30436: Raise ModuleNotFoundError for importlib.util.find_spec() when parent isn't a package (GH-1899)
Previously AttributeError was raised, but that's not very reflective of the fact that the requested module can't be found since the specified parent isn't actually a package.
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@@ -1215,6 +1215,11 @@ an :term:`importer`.
.. versionadded:: 3.4
+ .. versionchanged:: 3.7
+ Raises :exc:`ModuleNotFoundError` instead of :exc:`AttributeError` if
+ **package** is in fact not a package (i.e. lacks a :attr:`__path__`
+ attribute).
+
.. function:: module_from_spec(spec)
Create a new module based on **spec** and