From: Zackery Spytz <zspytz@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 09:42:43 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: bpo-39393: Misleading error message on dependent DLL resolution failure (GH-18093)
X-Git-Tag: v3.9.0a4~193
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=13c1c3556f2c12d0be2af890fabfbf44280b845c;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

bpo-39393: Misleading error message on dependent DLL resolution failure (GH-18093)
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-01-20-23-42-53.bpo-39393.gWlJDG.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-01-20-23-42-53.bpo-39393.gWlJDG.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..025b7e96a6e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-01-20-23-42-53.bpo-39393.gWlJDG.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+Improve the error message when attempting to load a DLL with unresolved
+dependencies.
diff --git a/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c b/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c
index 7b13fa041a20..65c6eb15a298 100644
--- a/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c
+++ b/Modules/_ctypes/callproc.c
@@ -1311,8 +1311,9 @@ static PyObject *load_library(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
 
     if (err == ERROR_MOD_NOT_FOUND) {
         PyErr_Format(PyExc_FileNotFoundError,
-                     ("Could not find module '%.500S'. Try using "
-                      "the full path with constructor syntax."),
+                     ("Could not find module '%.500S' (or one of its "
+                      "dependencies). Try using the full path with "
+                      "constructor syntax."),
                      nameobj);
         return NULL;
     } else if (err) {