bpo-20490: Improve circular import error message (GH-15308)

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Anthony Sottile 2019-09-09 08:17:50 -07:00 committed by Steve Dower
parent 88b24f96ae
commit 65366bc8bd
5 changed files with 27 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -5233,10 +5233,17 @@ import_from(PyThreadState *tstate, PyObject *v, PyObject *name)
PyErr_SetImportError(errmsg, pkgname, NULL);
}
else {
errmsg = PyUnicode_FromFormat(
"cannot import name %R from %R (%S)",
name, pkgname_or_unknown, pkgpath
);
_Py_IDENTIFIER(__spec__);
PyObject *spec = _PyObject_GetAttrId(v, &PyId___spec__);
Py_XINCREF(spec);
const char *fmt =
_PyModuleSpec_IsInitializing(spec) ?
"cannot import name %R from partially initialized module %R "
"(most likely due to a circular import) (%S)" :
"cannot import name %R from %R (%S)";
Py_XDECREF(spec);
errmsg = PyUnicode_FromFormat(fmt, name, pkgname_or_unknown, pkgpath);
/* NULL checks for errmsg and pkgname done by PyErr_SetImportError. */
PyErr_SetImportError(errmsg, pkgname, pkgpath);
}