Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#8489 closed (wontfix)

ImportError from missing _md5 gets swallowed

Reported by: jfedor Owned by: nobody
Component: Uncategorized Version: dev
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Cc: Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

I encountered this problem on Mac OS X 10.4 using Python 2.5 from MacPorts and have seen it confusing other people on mailing lists.

If I install the Python package from MacPorts but forget the py25-hashlib package, importing hashlib fails, but the error message for that is not printed because ImportError is being cought in source:django/trunk/django/db/__init__.py. The user is stuck with a confusing message of "ImportError: No module named base" or similar (depending on the DB backend).

I suggest catching ImportError in source:django/trunk/django/utils/hashcompat.py and reraising it as ImproperlyConfigured.

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Jacob, 16 years ago

Resolution: wontfix
Status: newclosed

This should be considered a MacPorts bug: hashlib is part of the Python standard library, and any distribution that fails to include it is a broken distro.

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