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authorBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2009-08-30 19:08:58 (GMT)
committerBrett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>2009-08-30 19:08:58 (GMT)
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Raise TypeError if the name given to importlib.__import__() lacks an rpartition
attribute. Was throwing AttributeError before. Discovered when running test_builtin against importlib. This exception change is specific to importlib.__import__() and does not apply to import_module() as it is being done for compatibility reasons only.
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@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ C-API
Library
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+- Raise a TypeError when the name of a module to be imported for
+ importlib.__import__ is not a string (was raising an
+ AttributeError before).
+
- Allow the fromlist passed into importlib.__import__ to be any iterable.
- Have importlib raise ImportError if None is found in sys.modules.