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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index fbe4b77..ec8429b 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -282,3 +282,12 @@ that may require changes to your code. it would write to is a symlink or a non-regular file. This is to act as a warning that import will overwrite those files with a regular file regardless of what type of file path they were originally. + +* :meth:`importlib.abc.SourceLoader.get_source` no longer raises + :exc:`ImportError` when the source code being loaded triggers a + :exc:`SyntaxError` or :exc:`UnicodeDecodeError`. As :exc:`ImportError` is + meant to be raised only when source code cannot be found but it should, it was + felt to be over-reaching/overloading of that meaning when the source code is + found but improperly structured. If you were catching ImportError before and + wish to continue to ignore syntax or decoding issues, catch all three + exceptions now.
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