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-rw-r--r--Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/exceptions.rst13
-rw-r--r--Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst3
3 files changed, 2 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
index 1bdcdd3..c0c30a0 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/exceptions.rst
@@ -686,8 +686,6 @@ the variables:
+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------+----------+
| :c:data:`PyExc_ImportError` | :exc:`ImportError` | |
+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------+----------+
-| :c:data:`PyExc_ModuleNotFoundError` | :exc:`ModuleNotFoundError` | |
-+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------+----------+
| :c:data:`PyExc_IndexError` | :exc:`IndexError` | |
+-----------------------------------------+---------------------------------+----------+
| :c:data:`PyExc_InterruptedError` | :exc:`InterruptedError` | |
diff --git a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
index 933667c..ece035d 100644
--- a/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/exceptions.rst
@@ -169,8 +169,8 @@ The following exceptions are the exceptions that are usually raised.
.. exception:: ImportError
- Raised when the :keyword:`import` statement has troubles trying to load a
- module.
+ Raised when an :keyword:`import` statement fails to find the module definition
+ or when a ``from ... import`` fails to find a name that is to be imported.
The :attr:`name` and :attr:`path` attributes can be set using keyword-only
arguments to the constructor. When set they represent the name of the module
@@ -180,15 +180,6 @@ The following exceptions are the exceptions that are usually raised.
.. versionchanged:: 3.3
Added the :attr:`name` and :attr:`path` attributes.
-.. exception:: ModuleNotFoundError
-
- A subclass of :exc:`ImportError` which is raised by :keyword:`import` when a
- module could not be located. This includes ``from ... import`` statements as
- the specific attribute being requested cannot be known a priori to be a module
- or some other type of object.
-
- .. versionadded:: 3.4
-
.. exception:: IndexError
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index 2c47476..9073bde 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -137,9 +137,6 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are:
* Unicode database updated to UCD version 6.2.
-* Import now raises the new exception :exc:`ModuleNotFoundError` (subclass of
- :exc:`ImportError`) when it cannot find something.
-
* :func:`min` and :func:`max` now accept a *default* argument that can be used
to specify the value they return if the iterable they are evaluating has no
elements. Contributed by Julian Berman in :issue:`18111`.