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Author	plimkilde
Recipients	paul.moore, plimkilde, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date	2020-01-20.09:27:29
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Message-id	<1579512450.11.0.864670825995.issue39393@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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Under Windows with Python 3.8+, trying to load a DLL whose dependencies cannot be resolved may produce a misleading error message. For example, if we are trying to load a library foo.dll that depends on bar.dll, and bar.dll cannot be resolved while foo.dll itself can, Python gives this error message: "FileNotFoundError: Could not find module 'foo.dll'. Try using the full path with constructor syntax." (behavior introduced with PR #12302) Personally, I'd be happy to see a fix that simply adds " (or one of its dependencies)" to the error message.

Under Windows with Python 3.8+, trying to load a DLL whose dependencies cannot be resolved may produce a misleading error message.

For example, if we are trying to load a library foo.dll that depends on bar.dll, and bar.dll cannot be resolved while foo.dll itself can, Python gives this error message:
"FileNotFoundError: Could not find module 'foo.dll'. Try using the full path with constructor syntax."
(behavior introduced with PR #12302)

Personally, I'd be happy to see a fix that simply adds " (or one of its dependencies)" to the error message.

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Date	User	Action	Args
2020-01-20 09:27:30	plimkilde	set	recipients: + plimkilde, paul.moore, tim.golden, zach.ware, steve.dower
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